For the most part, I have enough market data to put together a decent business case for making the investment (land values, rental data, local re estate market, etc) The one piece I'm missing is the cost of building the new building to spec.

I've been working at it for three months and have sent out over 3000 pieces of mail.

I'm sure there is a real estate school there for real estate agents, you might consider starting there, not saying take the exam for the license but the material presented will put you months (maybe longer) ahead of trying to dig out information piece by piece or from any guru stuff.

I would find the most prime piece of commercial revenue generating property that I could find, that would be fulfilling a dream to own, and then I would contact someone [RMOVED] that would use that mildo you have to invest as your skin in the game and then exponentially increase your leverage by bringing in their private equity capital dollars to fund the deal of your dreams.

Good contractor could do everything in a more timely manner then doing piece by piece, reason being, painters for example, can use a sprayer and do all the units in a fraction of the time.

Unless of course the slab is completely cracked into several different pieces.

However, I am seeing great deals on SFR with renting potential, so here's my question:Do you think SFR are a good idea to start out with as long as you rent them out in pieces, either by the room or at least in two pieces (i.e. main floor and basement separate?)

Even pieces of junk have multiple offers.

Exposure is the key, but if you are going to send people advertisements on a regular basis, make sure to include something of value so that it is not just another BUY-BUY-BUY marketing piece that they will most likely discard.Thanks,- Harrison

Make it short and targeted and use bullet points - make is scannable.Do not do one for all of those markets - do one for each - one for REITS one for investors one for retail etc....KNOW YOUR GOAL of the piece - remmeber your not going to close a sale with one letter - so what are you trying to close?