@Eric Wills Networking is one of the key ingredients to success.

Convenience store purchases vs growing ingredients in your garden or buying the ingredients and cooking yourself.What type of investor do you want to be? 

The number one "ingredient", is eliminating emotion from the equation.

Vacancies and similar are ingredients to the NOI.

Cars are made with soy ingredients on plastic wiring.

Forbes magazine and others are hyping it up as if they just discovered a gold mine and knew some secret ingredient.

Things will take longer, costs will run higher, and unless you're one of the few extremely lucky ones first time out of the gate, this has all the ingredients of a disaster or at best a mediocre deal that will leave you disillusioned with the wealth-building power of real estate.Tell us more about what you're doing, what market you're in, and why you think hard money is your only choice. 

In my book they are the two key ingredients for cash flowing properties.I have the feeling that a lot of these investors putting money to work are from out of state.

What most people seem to forget though is that Detroit Metropolitan, Michigan has all the ingredients of a perfect long-term investment and with the "Big Three" getting back on their feet and showing quarterly earnings and with plans of demolishing tens of thousands of homes and rebuilding eco-farms, parks, and many other new and exciting things in the city, my city is the perfect investment in my eyes for any investor!

I heard the main ingredient in Envirotabs is bovine scat, chemical abbreviation BS.