If you are a multi-family investor or higher up the food chain in apartment buildings and commercial space, you want licensed electrical contractors performing electric work.

I would rather buy an RE franchise than a Subway but most of my friends who have done well in RE have looked to fast food franchises in order to have a place to park their money and build businesses that they can eventually sell without necessarily having to be hands on once they pass it to a good store manager...

Just food for thought

Anyway, the points made on this post, especially @Joe Homs, have been enlightening and food for thought-- thanks again ... and good luck w/your RE endeavors!

They don't close the bags and there often is food in these bags.

I wouldn't take them to some fast food place, just do it at the property.

I don’t want to wait (at 75 years old I can’t afford to wait).it seems as if everything we do has some sort of instant gratification; fast food – the micro wave, drive thru car wash and any information we want immediately with the internet - I want my profit now – I don’t want to wait for appreciation, or to depend on an agent to list my deal and wait for a long time for a suitable contract offer full of contingencies, I don’t want to go through the qualification process – I don’t want my life dependent on some snotty nose bank clerk to approve my loan.

Just some food for thought.

I had a simple Excel spreadsheet that tracked fixed expenses like mortgage, insurance, utilities, etc, and it also had columns for food, dining out, clothing, etc.  

If at 12% they are close to losing money after adding in food and labor.