There are a number of strategies out there but one I often hear about doing well is the BRRRR method where you Buy Renovate Rent Refinance and Repeat it creates equity and cash flow for you at the same time while also allowing you to invest in better neighborhoods which have better tenants in which you can safely scale up and expand your portfolio But ultimately the deal is in the numbers so the better you are at analyzing deals the easier it will be for you know when you have found a good deal so practice analyzing as much as you can to sharpen your skills because even as a wholesaler your deal analyzing skills must be up to par because your selling your deals to investors who do this on a regular basis hope this helps 

I personally am scaling back on marketing and acquisition 

I'm not at the scale to afford the best, but something would be nice. 

It really depends on your scale. 

Your tip is great to know for BP, because I have to use Google when working with manufacturer’s knowledge center database because their internal search function is terrible.

The tiles (by many manufacturers) are a limestone composite, very durable and usually come in 16 x 16 but cqan be as large as a 12 x 24 .

@Moe Hirsch Appreciate the tip on the Milano product, I have seen those before and like them but did not know who the manufacturer was.

Look at an amortization scale. 

“Access to housing—particularly affordable housing—is becoming more and more limited, and that’s going to be a real problem for our region” he continued, “we have major corporations and grand-scale economic investments taking place, but fewer and fewer options in terms of housing for the people who are going to take those jobs.

I think any place I'm going to buy and hold for long term, if there's no large scale technology jobs it's a dying city and I'm rolling the dice.