This is a fun one.Aside from “invest in Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, or Akron”, here are some ideas:First map out annual savings potential and multiply by the next 13 years.

And when they start, you know how this song goes, it's all the look-backs and all of a sudden an avalanche of "stings" and what-not.  

Then multiply it by 1.2 (more or less) as a buffer.Strategy One: Buy a fixed annuity with 2% inflation.

Besides real estate, I enjoy learning ways to grow and multiply my money and really look into diversifying my portfolio.Recently, I felt in love with tennis!

Multiply the out of pocket by the ten deals he's going to do the first month he needs about $210k to get started so I suspect he's not planning to bring the mortgage current, but I might be wrong.In my claims work I've known many agents who closed outside the box transactions, it's not because all the others weren't smart enough close them, it's because the ones who didn't, didn't want to run the risk of losing their license or winding up in prison.Some of the posts I read make it sound like searching and examining title and closing transactions is a walk in the park taking no skill, deserving little compensation and less respect. 

., it's asked in a manner of TACTICS, what tactics is a person doing that's getting deals and fact is that's NOT the difference between myself with a steady avalanche of deals and yourself with a trickle at best.

Once you have your list rank ordered take the subject property and multiply its square footage by the average of the middle 80% of the price / ft entries.  

If you want to pretend a property will go up 3% in the coming year, multiply ARV (how do you figure ARV, the value of a property by the way?)

@Jim K.I would take the 23 and subtract 7 and then multiply by 4 to get the approximate square footage of my yards seasonal rain fall in the post monsoon quadrant...But on a more serious note I would just take out my phone and use the calculator.

Multiply that by .3 (25% down for down payment and then 5% for closing costs totals 30%)3.