As to your numerical goal, you can certainly exceed that (and ultimately by a large margin).Most would-be real estate investors get distracted along the way but have lots of smart phone apps.

That's the category of lender you want to avoid falling into.This is a roundabout way of saying if you can show real value to your borrowers by understanding their business you will attract the best quality borrowers with the best collateral and can charge a premium for your services because they are the borrowers who understand what's most important in a lending relationship and its not solely the rate or origination fees.

Owning two less expensive homes for long-term rentals offers diversification and stable cash flow, but may also generate lower monthly cash flow and property quality issues.

You gave me some quality information I hadn’t heard of a direct booking strategy for repeat guests before.

As far as the quality of advice at a bigbox store - it is highly variable.

Prime rental market, good quality tenants because of higher asking rent Lessons learned?

Prime rental market, good quality tenants because of higher asking rent Lessons learned?

I would focus less on quantity and more on quality.

You can get a fourplex for about $500-$650,000 in a high quality part of the metro here with as little as $125,000 or so in equity/cash.

I know most PMs already have go-to contractors for most things but I also know from experience that good contractors tend to get busy or scale to a point where quality suffers.For the professional property managers of the world, how often do you get solicited by new vendors and what can a new one do to convince you to give them a chance?