There are some markets in CA that do cash flow, mostly the desert areas and areas like Bakersfield where you can buy properties for sub $100k and get over $1000 a month in rents but these areas will have lower appreciation potential too so it is almost always a trade off, more cash flow usually equates to less appreciation potential and vice versa.Rehab flips are better returns, but an active investment, not semi passive like rentals.

For an attorney to execute and record the simplest doc is at least two billable hours.

I should have bailed on college when I had the chance and took up a trade skill at some on the job training program.

I would bet 1000 cases of Lone Star longnecks that John Jackson knows the lease option laws and regs (executable contracts) from the idiot RE legislators in Austin TX better than any man alive or dead.Any BP poster care to wager?

I suppose the only thing out of the ordinary is how we want to fund it, and that we aren't builders by trade.

One of our objective in the game is to trade up our houses with hotels.

Highly paid professionals and executives are dumping their homes through the short sale method.

I know from experience it takes time to raise capital, execute etc. and there are a lot of players right now I don't think they will slow down buying they will just lower their criterian instead of 10% net they will go down to 5% net etc.

I don’t need an original idea; I need a better method of executing an existing idea.

If he needs a post hole digger/auger thats a tool if the trade and its on him.