Were you looking for areas you can drive and contribute to, or just hiring out?  

I have been reading alot of books on real estate investment and am very confident in my ability to analyse a property and calculate all the important investment ratios, however I am no expert and will need to look at atleast 100 more deals.The Game PlanI currently have two game plans I am looking into....so I will list them both and then ask my questionPlan #1 90k upon graduation saved up (co-ops) (Starting salary 95k)Saving 40% of income 38k a year savedWork 7 years (contributing min to 401k)After 7 years 356k saved in cash (Age 30)Buy a multifamily building 1.4m (75 LTV 25 down)Been talking to family about plan #1 could potentially raise 50k for the apartment deal as well by bringing them on as investorsI received feedback from another investor who told me "The biggest problem with your plan right now is holding on to all that cash--which isn't doing anything.

The listing agent should know enough about the deal to structure the offer the best way.....there may additional junior liens that need a contribution from you to be satisfied, so you'd lower offer by that much.

I will contribute in any way possible.

Then it analyzes the current reserves and the annual contributions and reports to what extent the reserves are "fully funded."

We could sit down before or after that and chat about all the different things I could contribute to your operation. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/389751-using-hard-money-101---w-special-guest-eastside-fundingWhether you want to work with me or not, I recommend doing your due diligence on agents.

Contribute what you can as you learn.  

Thanks to all those who contributed. 

But could bad tenants also contribute to the rent spikes?

While your point about paying above market value is theoretically possible, in practice it will never occur as those factors contributing to local acquisition prices and the market CAP rate will also factor into our risk analysis (local economic trends, clientele, directional move of the neighbourhood (improving/deteriorating) which determines the level of return we would require from the venture.