I thought to myself, even though I have been selling for about 25 years, if I were to buy in their jurisdiction I would find an excellent agent to assist me.

Philadelphia could be an excellent market for your next real estate investments given your criteria and experience.

The Contractor did an excellent job and the windows look great. 

It’s a great little place and I think you did an excellent job.

I just posted about it here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...It's been an excellent option for me. 

You might also be a good candidate for a small boutique hotel, an operator looking to retire will often entertain seller financing on fair terms and you could likely qualify for a SBA loan to help with your vision. 

They are cheap, and will get cheaper in coming recession, as tourism to Vegas will decline, and they have superior growth and great management, that know what they are actually doingADC -(Agree Realty), they do what I do privately, but on a bigger scale, run by Joey Agree , very smart, they have excellent growth, multi-tenant, triple net retail, and grocery anchored Retail, they will benefit from massive secular tailwinds, as there has been under construction in retail for years, due to fear of E-commerce, higher construction costs/insurance costs, post GFC under financing-construction, etc, so existing inventory is commanding higher rents, we are bumping new leases by 7-11%, they will get this endogenous earnings growth for yearsthese should perform well over next 10 years, never buy anything in Real Estate for less than 10 years, to allow to go through cycles, and if you can buy in 401k/IRA so dividends can be re-invested tax freegood luck, you have to monitor your E-REITS like you would any other stock, closely, as they move with sentiment not just on NAV like private Real estate, so you can't just dose em w 200mg of propofol and walk away, not that you'd ever do that :)good luck

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These floors may be a decent candidate for that 

It's an excellent addition to David Green's book "Long Distant REI".