You pay more at the small hardware shop located a block from you than you would at the Home Depot 12 miles from you, but I will still occasionally shop and pay a higher price at the ma and pa store if I want the convenience.

(I tell this to my friends, wife, and kids all the time.I have a few songs I like to listen to on the way to an appointment to get motivated:Mudshovel by StaindBreadfan by MetallicaMaster of Puppets by MetallicaDead and Bloated by STP

. - Do my first deal all cash or nearly all cash, spending $75-90k on a duplex (includes any rehab costs) - Immediately use the equity in the home to finance another, slightly larger (or nicer) property in the same area - Rinse and repeat until I've met my goals - Occasionally flip properties if the opportunity is there (as I have the skills and experience to do much of the work myself), but main strategy is buy, hold and rentSo, a few questions:- I know there are about a million and one ways this'll go off plan, slightly or entirely, but at a high level, is this a sound strategy?

One I break occasionally is renting to someone with a bankruptcy.

I own a few rentals and do the occasional fix and flip.

J Scott, 25K educates 4 people, each member gets their own ID & password with access to the Mastery site, 24/7 where ever they may be, each member get free admission to the all awesome bootcamps, 3 and 4 "live" training/webinars per week and access to years of recorded webinars on every imaginable Real Estate investing strategy, taught by active successful Mastery graduates, every form, contract, marketing kit and strategies one might need, scripts for every imaginable power team member, realtors, mortgage broker, emergency deal evaluators, transactional funding, occasional partnering on deals, free Passive Income advice and guidance/consultation, and recommended vendor resources with discounts in place for Mastery students in many cases.

There is an occasional small group like the small property owners association in mass.

But I occasionally will get a deal I would just like to wholesale instead.

How about if the show only pitches his business occasionally?

Direct mail tends to be a crappy investment if you only do an occasional mailing to a different list every time.