My sphere is friends, family, or any other contacts that I speak to on a regular basis.

Keeping the real estate investments separate from my regular w2 income.

I work with the distressed property owners of Bronx and NY areas, I regularly seek advice from BP on any issue arising out of any problem. 

If the fees are unavoidable, people should contribute to the company match, and then go to Vanguard and open a roth or regular IRA.Run the calcs with the maximum contribution.  

After getting myself into a big backlog and mess where i had too much going on and that caused one very inefficient day after the next, I'm all about now remaking an efficient operation and I'm NOT dreaming of some "auto pilot" type deal, where I can work a couple of hours a day if that and magically have huge sue of money flow in regularly, I fully expect to continue working long hours, but want to eliminate being the relay service for these silly go betweens. 

A wholesale house would be one that is available at a significant discount from that desired by a regular home-buyer, a retail house. 

I regularly work with investors to find them great deals all over the Tampa Bay area.

@Vincent Crane I've seen you engage and contribute to the forums so regularly I just figured you were an 'old pro'!    

I think people like bullet points - they are scanning lots of homes and you want to make they key facts easy to spot: number of BR, bathrooms, garage space, square footage and location.We use two seperate contracts: a regular rental agreement and a simple option to purchase agreement.

The last thing you need is Bleacher Report picking up a tweet about you being a slumlord, whether they're full of bs or not.My suggestion here would be to have an attorney set you up so your personal name will not be attached to any regular real estate investing you are involved with (set up should cost $thousands, but not $tens of thousands), and then maybe another set up for high end REI where your celebrity would be most beneficial.