-To your success, the Rent To Retirement team!

I look forward to seeing your posts and wish you success in your investing journey

Balancing both cash flow and appreciation is key to long-term success.

So, it's still a viable way of investing, but does not have the same scale of success in today's economic environment in higher appreciation markets.

To scale successfully you have to get past the point where your newly increased expenditures exceed your increased revenue; past the point where your ROI allows you to “break even” on your investment, and past the point where the ROI is worth the increased risk, the increased aggravation, time, and “lifestyle” change, and past the point where you can step back from “operations” and concentrate on management.  

The Shadow Ln deal was an outstanding success.

Keep in mind that tenant screening, regular property maintenance, and understanding the inspection requirements for Section 8 are crucial for success.

We do a ton of them here in Chicago and everyone of them is a great long term success!

Your first couple deals will be important, they will set the stage for your success.

Hey Bigger Pockets community, I'm just starting out in Step 1 (get educated) on what I want to become a successful career in real estate investment.I also currently run an e-commerce business that is currently completely online, but would benefit from having a brick & mortar storefront, and I had an idea that maybe using the investment capital I'm looking to allocate into real estate into a commercial property my business can operate out of until I decide to sell the property in or rent it out to another business.I am obviously very naive when it comes to the complexity of any good real estate deal (especially commercial VS residential), but I'm hoping to spend as much time learning from everyone here who is on their journey as well.My main concern with the idea of buying commercial to operate my business out of it that I might struggle to rent it out afterwards and that there may likely be depreciation in the commercial real estate market over the next 5 years.I understand there is a lot of nuance depending on the local market but I'm guessing commercial is even less of a "safe" bet than finding a solid residential deal to leverage in some way.