When you start to look at the entire picture of investing in real estate (let alone the IRR v.

Whether that's a good idea or not, is hard to tell without knowing more about your financial picture.

Get in my car, take a picture of the check via mobile deposit and were done here.  

@Luke Grogan That tailored approach may increase your income, but at some point I'd suggest stepping back to look at the bigger picture and decide how much more effort is the extra income worth?

Looks like my family Christmas eve picture.

So, when I finally decided to quit my career and start my own real estate investment company, I had all of these...mechanisms and methodologies...engrained in my head as the right way to approach any problem - PARTICULARLY, the right way to run a company (and I still believe this is true).So, through my real estate journey, I have noticed that most (not all) real estate investors don't really like to, nor see the need to, approach investing from a bigger picture.

WHAT is that third picture with the green and yellow circles?!?

(some areas look desolate in the pictures)- How can i find out if people are moving into that area or moving out?

So work a little on that.A few other things you could try is "driving for dollars" and look for empty houses or FSBO's and non-Agent "For Sale" signs, take some pictures that will remind you what you looked at, and keep following them up and you never know when they will be a "yes".  

Bought and closed on it in August for $167,000Put about $51,000 into itSold for $269,900 less $3,000 in closing costRealtor fee $13,495Holding cost including Private Money cost $10,800Profit about $24,605.00   (We shoot for about $25K per deal and yes we miss it sometimes) Here are some before and after photos.That's enough pictures for now but we have lots of others showing the rest of the home including the bedrooms, master bath etc.