For instance, as an Owner/Builder, you must pull the permits, and this instantly makes YOU responsible for the satisfactory completion of said permit, and you also must know applicable codes.If one of your Subs has an employee that is not completely legit, then that falls on you as well, and you might not have even known about it.....!

There are some legal concerns in certain areas, Illinois and Philadelphia for instance requires you to have a real estate license to wholesale from my understanding.The biggest issue is that most simply don't make much money wholesaling.

The famous Amsterdam study looked at bills of sale for >400 years on canal front homes in Amsterdam, and price appreciation exactly mirrored inflation rate, ie residential real estate or any real estate never goes up in Value only in Price because the currency its denominated in loses its value at same rate.

The following looks at hypothetical purchases, anecdotally and in relative isolation, meaning there may be a reason (for instance to generate large tax losses for "active participation" investors to offset other income) for some individuals to undertake a particular kind of purchase.

For instance, depreciation on whatever property you are buying or something called "tax-loss harvesting" where you sell investments at a loss to offset the shares that are at a gain. 

Obviously, this isn’t true in every single instance but in my experience property managers tend to out perform agents who also manage properties.

By default, the Mortgagee is both the one that lends and the one that has an insurable interest and therefor both descriptions pertain to “Mortgagee”.Which is preferred: Traditional Banks always only require they be listed as the Mortgagee whereas Hard Money and or Private Money; it’s 50/50.Now, you’re probably wondering in what instance would someone be listed as a Loss Payee but not Mortgagee- well, let’s say someone lends the property owner money in a non-traditional fashion - we can chat more about this later -whether it be for the property or for something else, doesn’t matter, and the borrower uses the property as collateral.

With Safely you would pay, for instance, $70 per booking and Safely would cover you for damage and liability (again, check with them directly on this, I am not associated with the company so I can't say for sure they do liability!)

Houses in Maine are built differently, used differently, and degrade differently than houses in Phoenix, for instance.

As illustrated in the chart above, each instance of an inverted yield curve has typically been followed by a recession.