And I've found that the folks who reach out to me after lurking my profile and doing homework, etc, tend to have great credit/income/assets/motivation - which makes it even better.

The furniture tends to be smaller in size, so it makes all your rooms look bigger.

Most of the other groups tend to attract beginners.

This is a common refrain from CPAs, and they tend to look at it from only the tax perspective.  

@Timothy Gerdes  I tend to disagree with @Cory Mccarthy on this one. 20% is certainly not the norm in Grand Rapids,  and if you are getting 20% on your purchases then we definitely could do a lot of business together.

May wait till i have roughly 30kish in Savings (tend not to cash out stock and such when buying)

On the plus side, land contract buyers have an ownership mentality and not a renter's (like lease option tenants tend to have).You need to find out which the tenant means. 

As an aside, I tend to prefer 30034 over 30032 as I think there is a little bit more potential for price appreciation and increases in rent in 30034 versus 30032.

B-class investments also tend to have a more “blue collar” median income tenant.

Hi @Patrick Snoke,I tend to agree with you, I like option number 2.For my note investments, I prefer to utilize a Delaware LLC because of the state's favorable corporate and banking laws (there are also other states that offer similar advantages).