My main short term goal is to produce income of at least $50K to support my family back home between now and January.

Maybe the assets produce the yield for a little bit, then don't, or maybe they never do.

This is an out-of-the-box-money-tree-generating innovative idea.Thanks to the OP Ben Skove.

I am looking at opportunities which produce good income without a tremendous burden on all ends.

If prices get so high that it doesn't produce a good return on investment, don't buy!

That's not to say you can't do a deal, but the below would be my recommendation so that you could at least continue to learn on the fly as you continue to try to produce income:1.

Clients with larger amounts of money are more sophisticated and look at taxes and depreciation as much as the income and how much TIME the investment will take to produce the anticipated return.With commercial you generally need in the hundreds of thousands to get started or if you have 50k to 100k you can partner up with others to go into a bigger property.

Anything else is not held for investment but to produce income.

So late 2012 we finally found a place, bought it with my own 20% closed in Nov.

I used the search feature but was unable to find anything and using the keyword alert didn't produce the results I'm looking for.