I'm hoping someone wiser will come along and reveal the secret sauce.

There is no secret sauce, you can google for tax codes, you can meet with agents, you can use mortgage and rental calculators and do the basic math and you can proactively think about tenant issues and how that might affect you and your returns. 

What's your "secret sauce" in marketing for lead generation? 

Or make any or much money.Pace Morby though for sure has the secret sauce with his students and such they really adore him from what I have seen.

Generally, for the optimal refinance, these are top of mind for BRRRR strategy investors:Return of capital: The key “secret sauce” of the BRRRR method is to build portfolios using the same capital over and over—which relies on getting your basis (or more) back on the refinance, where basis refers to the money you invested in the property (down payment and cash used for renovations).Speed: Refinance lenders use the term “seasoning” to refer to the amount of time (typically in months) between the purchase of the property and the refinance.

If anyone of those team pieces fails, the entire process fails.This can be done and it can be done well and be profitable, but there is a secret sauce to the BRRRR and if you do not know what it is and you're in the arena just playing with fire then you will get burned, but on the other hand show me a fire handler with no scars so it works both ways.Good Luck, if you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out. 

Who knows, maybe something as stupidly simple as adding inn free internet and cable is the secret sauce that get's you a better tenant tier and 10% better rents.

But when months becomes years and someone is still searching for the secrete sauce, it's a problem.

And since people only pay $40k to a mentor when they think he will teach them the “secret sauce”, these basics won’t be found on Youtube or as part of any mentoring program.  

As for off-market deals, networking really is the secret sauce—especially with local wholesalers, PMs, and agents who know the neighborhoods inside out.