You typically don't have the opportunity to inspect them prior to purchase, the occupants may not leave, the occupants may trash the place and steal doors, appliances, and cabinets on their way out, or you may discover it's so damaged it needs to be torn down.

In the latest tax bill, there is a great opportunity in what is called Opportunity Zones.

You can 1031 into passive opportunities later in life where the deferred tax continues to make a return for you all your life.2.

Yes, although the prices has increased very steadily so I think there are better opportunities elsewhere.

I am a private lender financing business purpose loans for investment properties in california.I like to service my own loans as that gives me an opportunity to keep in touch with my borrowers and also turn them as my marketing agents too ( where ever i can)I am only doing about 5 loans at a time and use xls for that (interest only loans)I al looking for a recommendation for a cloud based software I could use for servicing a small pool of california loans.Please advise.

Everything in real estate is about opportunity cost. 

As you can imagine, it is an awesome opportunity for me to binge read countless books and listen to an insane amount of podcasts in a very short amount of time, relatively speaking (8-10 hours a day can really knock out a good chunk of if not an entire book, perhaps two).

The affordable single family homes provide a lot of opportunity.

As to location for your OOS investments, I'm in southeast Tennessee and while there are fewer deals now than 3 years ago, there's still plenty of cash flowing opportunities in the market.

I’m about to cash out refinance a BRRRRed duplex and will be looking for my next opportunity.