Hey @Justine Gamble!

It's easy for me to get lost in the grind or to focus on goals instead of progress so I'm glad that I took this moment to remember where it all started and that was with a gamble on this one property that has paid off ever since.

Not the clean report I was hoping for.The numerous remediation attempts and testing have wiped out my profit on this flip.

Purchase price: $690,000 Cash invested: $172,500 Took a gamble on a larger single family home in an up and coming master planned community.

Its really a gamble that you have to be prepared for. 

There is a gamble there that the second appraisal comes in at or below the first.

If one were to look at the list of portfolio properties presented on various syndicator websites and think that the syndicator listing them was the one that found, secured, purchased and asset managed all the listed properties, then one might arrive at an inaccurate conclusion for numerous syndicators.

@Henry Clark in step 1, what is the numerator of the ratio?

I have taken numerous courses in RE and am passionate about learning more I am based out of West TX- Midland/Odessa area

Anything else is luck and relying on luck is gambling.