A tiny % of people can avoid the hard work by getting creative or lucky, but most have to work hard, take action, and be patient. 

Goes back to that original thesis in a thread long time ago-- quality over quantity.

The majority of SEO people will use mostly white hat - but then use something called "private blog networks" to obtain powerful links predictably, at quantity and without charging an arm and a leg for.

SW thats on the west/north side of the river is good, the tiny sliver of SW on the south/east side of the river not so much.The public housing in SW near the stadiums is an issue, and will likely remain so. 

You can partner with people if you want to scale more quickly, but at some point you will need a property manager as handling a large number of properties (eg dozens) and working a full time job isn't feasible for most people.Also remember it is about quality not quantity. 

As spring (slowly) approaches, the quantity of listings on the Oregon Coast will continue to trickle upwards, a good sign for buyers that have been looking to take advantage of the recent drop in mortgage rates. 

The larger ones tend to be more quantity versus quality driven. 5) No warzones.

The lead is the hardest part of the whole business, and you're talking about a tiny percentage for something that has probably taken weeks of  constant rejection to generate and is worth many thousands of dollars.I occasionally buy property from wholesalers, and I'm aware that they make tens of thousands on the transaction.

I have been looking at the Nashville market to buy 5+ acres, owner occupy the main dwelling and build tiny homes or other accessory dwellings on the property for short term rentals.From what I gather, AR2a zoning (which nearly all these sorts of properties are) disallow accessory dwellings, but somehow allow mobile homes, accessory apartments, and two-family dwellings.

Its the same thing in cheap markets were they sell say 130k new construction.. those deals usually have 10 to 15% gross margins so they are making 13 to maybe 20k if they are really lucky net profit but getting good leverage and pumping out 50 in a year.We will build about 40 homes this year.. so while we don't hit homeruns we make it up in volume and god willing the market holding and the star's aligning and every other lucky charm we can pull .Like @Will Barnard even though it was an outlier for us we did a 5 million dollar flip and made 1.5 on it.. but that was not something we could recreate .. and I don't have the stones to do that these days.. with my cheaper homes I know my bank will let me make them into rentals if they don't sell and with the rents the way they are they would cash flow or be a tiny bit negative as we rode out the market...