And once you get on the bandwagon, you can leverage your equity to get into another property.Best suggestion for you: talk locally to investors in your areas of interest.

I wrote a blog about it the other day.. curious about your thoughts..http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4579/blog_posts/32645-if-ca-h-is-king-then-leverage-is-god---loans-cash-roe-roi-and-risk

For now, they are just layering the leverage.

I also own a small IT hosting company, which really comes in handy as I don't have many technology issues and am usually a bit ahead of the curve.

A property management fee is an operating expense.Final comments: The best way to get a larger percentage of the deal is to find the good deals, because the better the deal the more leverage you will have with investors.

@John Adamkewitz - Good point and great question, I always do wonder about leveraging my home equity and for me it is about the tax deduction.

Hard money is what we've been using and is a great way to leverage your money.

Also, from my preliminary reading, is it true all you can leverage out of these are 50k max?

You need to be open minded and able to adapt to change to succeed.If no one ever adapted to change or figured out new technology or techniques we would all still be cavemen!

Secondly there is the factor of leverage, if you can buy/refi at 80% LTV with a 5% loan, your roi goes up dramactically.