4) Are you adjusting to the market’s demands?

If they’re on a month to month lease, and you’ve offered them a year long lease that they have opted out of, you can adjust the terms of their lease once their month ends.

The tangible/measurable benefits do seem to pan out over the life of the system especially if energy prices continue to rise.

If investors attempt to streamline their services, it can lead to a more organized approach to property management, lowers the risk of gaps in insurance coverage or missed tax benefits as well as simplifies communication and reduces confusion.

The loan rate is about to adjust to 6.9% which is more than double what it currently is, making the property in the negative for monthly cash flow.   

It took me 10 years and I had the benefit of starting when RE was cheap.A business has literally the opposite character: it's primary strength is cash flow.

Your profit is the difference between your adjusted cost basis and your net sale.Adjusted cost basis is your cost of acquisition plus any capitalized improvements minus depreciation.It is very possible that you could sell a property you have refinanced and generate no cash at the sale but still have a big tax bill because you sell it for more than you purchased it for.

(This is why most IRA accounts use the initial FBO "for the benefit of") That is why you can't easily get to the money and have to pay taxes upon withdrawing it.So, if you invested in real estate, and created some cash flow, the money MUST go back to the custodian and the IRA.  

Viewed this way, it becomes a toss whether domestic or international investing is the riskiest.Let's give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that investing internationally is riskier.

Quote from @Sam Lewis: I understand the benefits behind hard money lending, its guarenteed return from your cash... however, what cases would a hard money lender trust someone they don't know/barely know?