Then, they promise to start renovation.   

I'm an excellent autonomous learner.It's perverse that so many gurus promise people big bucks and handholding along a royal road into real estate investment when the most important skill you need to succeed in this is the ability to learn difficult things with an absolute minimum of help.

It sounds interesting and kudos to your creativity.But one thing I would be concerned about is fake reports.

I promise that a multi is out there that will work for you in the Boston area and it will change your life!

In this post, we compile a number of expert opinions about future real estate trends in retail, multifamily, hotel, office, and industrial sectors.Warehousing and Industrial Real Estate Are Expected to Outperform Driven by E-commerce“More companies today are factoring their promise on fast delivery.” – NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association “The boom in e-commerce has created significant demand for new industrial space, often in markets based on population and Internet usage, rather than store replenishment.” – NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association“Staying ahead of—trends such as autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics, and robotics.” – An interviewee on the PWC 2019 Trends ReportE-commerce, “only made up 11% of the total industrial transactions signed in the past 12 months.”

I will say it's best to be clear and upfront about this as one of the four agents I talked with preferred to develop a one on one relationship, he was very accomplished and helpful but I wasn't ready to make that promise just yet. 

I got a hard money lender to fund it, then private money to pay for the down payment and monthly payments, with the promise that the deal will pay them back with a good return in total.

No problem this fake lender stuff is all over linkdin  facebook  BP  some of them actually advertise on CIX If you like American Greed go on the web and find the episode on Remington Financial  these guys were the motherof pump and dump due diligence lending schemes. 

I used to think picture of ID>. but now with fake lenders offering a picture of themselves holding their ID> not so sure anymore..

You started by saying if a deal only promises cash flow or appreciation, always go for cash flow.But then you say: Oh, but don't go with cash flow if there's no promise of appreciation also!