I can pay in cash and close fast.

If you want hands off but double digit returns in the San Antonio area I have real estate notes that I have created I can sell you.Rentals will make you old fast!

Accept fast and encourage them to sign a lease within 24 hours AND submitting the security deposit.

I'd suggest you run as fast as you can from this contractor - after you close down your store account first, of course.

I've seen people with more than 100 units implode because they grew too fast and bought lots of properties wrong. 

I find myself very eager to just pull the trigger because of the price, but I'm sure there's a lot more than meets the eye and as a newb investor, it can be an fast way to exit the RE game.

The goal is to refi out as soon as the 12 month mark hits so you base rents under market to fill up fast and land the most qualified tenants out of the renter pool for the area.

In hard times they cut that out to not at all or very infrequently to save money and eat at home or cheap fast food places.Right now a medium size restaurant could do well given the economy is rebounding in many parts of the country.The big franchises have the edge when the market cycles.

The "coconut wireless" (communication network) is very fast acting.There is a total of 4 active single family home listings on the MLS today for less than $190,000 on Oahu.

Unless you are a managing partner at Bear Stearns obviously.The fact that the fed is pumping money into the system when commodities are at all time highs and rising fast makes inflation an almost guaranteed thing.If wages rise accordingly (which it does not look like right now) we will just get out of debt by ways of inflation.