According to the Wall Street Journal, demand has become so intense that contractors are offering six-figure salaries and perks just to secure enough workers.This is an important nuance that gets lost in the headlines.

It was a compromise.Q3 (Summer): Portfolio Growth and a Different Kind of IntensitySummer was the most intense stretch of the year.

I have a property I bought 5 years ago with the intensions of doing this strategy.

Subdivisions get capital-intensive fast, so the financing challenge you’re anticipating is real for most developers, even in the U.S.A few approaches I’ve seen work in similar situations:Phase financing instead of trying to fund the whole thing at once.Some lenders (private or institutional) will fund infrastructure and horizontal work in stages as lots are pre-sold.

Hey Renee,If your budget is tight, driving for dollars is attractive because it requires little cash...but it’s also one of the most time-intensive lead gen strategies. 

And if anyone knows of a good REI club (I like FIBI ones but also have been to Bigger pocket meetups-- like the non intense networking ones)-- let me know

This may be  a long shot, but would love to perhaps partner with, work out a deal with someone that does flips in my area.

It is more time intensive but you are normally able to control more yourself.Either way the best place to start is to find the right market. 

He has some money saved, but bad credit.I would like to work out a plan to jumpstart us both into the rental world.

It eats up too much of my and my partner's time.Our rehabs have been good enough to generate a big bump in rents and cash flow, beyond our projections.That said, we have had to sink a lot of our own time & labor into the rehabs, so it is definitely an intensive investment.