While searching Zillow or Trulia or the leads my Agent would send me I found that most multi-family homes were price for retail purchase but touting it as a “great investment”.

Which lead me to writing this blog.Many investors, see a sale, hear about the landlord business from others, and they get excited and so they buy a house.

Got in around $200K and should be able to generate a little positive cash flow with more emphasis on long-term appreciation given terrific schools, commercial/highway development, and companies moving HQ's more north (e.g.

Only 8 years left thats getting after it but leads to ?

Credit card (or debit) for a self generating paper trail.

@Shiloh Lewis You may want to give name generators a try.

For a year, I networked and kept my eye on deals.I got a lead from NetWorth that seemed great.

They will have 3-4 good leads for you. 

He's the brains, lead generator, agent, and property manager of the operation (I trust him completely, he's a rock star), I'm basically providing the money. 

I copied this from a search on real estate ROE:Return on Equity (ROE) ratio calculates the amount of return generated in a particular year on the total amount of equity invested (or trapped) in a property.The amount invested (or denominator) is calculated as the initial investment (down payment) plus the entire increase in net property’s appreciation and the entire decrease in outstanding loan balance incurred prior to the year the ratio is being calculated.Cash-on-Cash Return is a similar calculation, but since the two draw backs of the traditional Cash-on-Cash Return are that property appreciation and principal debt payments are not factored into the formula, Return on Equity adds these two components to the traditional Cash-on-Cash Return calculation.A property’s net equity increase is calculated by determining what the “Net Sale Proceeds after Taxes” would be at the beginning of a year, and then again at the end of the year.