Rentals are more passive, not demanding as much of your time, but are probably not going to get you there fast enough.  

I would just make sure that you correctly explain how empty homes lose value FAST.

Tonight, we took a look at a 5 unit property that we found on Trulia.The first thing that we did was plug the numbers into a quick 60 second calculator to do a fast evaluation of the property.

Properties are selling fast and way too much for what I'd consider a good investment...if anything, you'd be lucky to break even because there is little motivation to sell for less.

The trick is to make fast and aggressive offers.

My first reaction is to say pay off your credit cards with the 13.5% and 13.49% interest however, if you think you can do a flip project or add value fast to a property that cash flows more than what you're paying in interest I would do that instead.

It was going south FAST. 

I'm able to save money fast, but would rather have the money doing something over 6-12 months, than sitting in a savings account.

Unfortunately, the income didn't rise as fast as the property taxes did and they were soon sunk within 2-3 years  

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