What strategies or systems have helped you grow from your first project to a scalable operation while managing risks, timelines, and financing?

Most residential real estate developers have a certain operating expense margin they are budgeting for in order to make sure they are hitting their return requirements.

I ran my own proforma and used an 8% vacancy rate and a 35% operating expense margin, which are the %s that most banks my clients work with use to underwrite their DSCR loans.

I've found that members in my area operate like a support team more so than competitors.

Toledo's Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority...LMHA which administers the Section 8 program seems to have had a difficult 2016 and 2017 doesn't seem much better.I've been renting to Section 8 for seven years now, I still have my original tenant in fact, and normally I find great satisfaction in renting to good tenants and working with the bureaucracy that comes with a government program...I had 10 properties rented section 8 at one point and have slowly prioritized standard rentals over the program and now am seeing blatant issues with their operations causing me to move away from considering their tenants.Delays in the program: We used to have 5 business day's delay for new-tenant vouchers to be reviewed and processed for inspection but have been going weeks before we hear anything.

Also, many lenders are picky about the operating agreement and structure of the LLCs.

I also own a short-term rental management company that partners with other real estate investors and second home owners to 2-5x their returns while also taking the headaches out of operating STR’s.

Do you recommend an operating business account in which I collect rent from and pay expenses if either STR or LTR entity and if master expense (ie.

@Agatha OliveiraSharing an operating agreement does not pierce your LLc and every contract you enter into the company should ask for a copy of the operating agreement to confirm the person signing has that authority

For that reason I built a full-functioning cash flow model taking into account hard money, the mortgage refinance and all relevant operating expenses to assess monthly cash flow.