All of this is aimed at providing more value to our members without hiking prices.While I understand your perspective, I don't think it's accurate to compare our approach to the fee increases mentioned in the article.

From an investment perspective, there's nothing wrong with the stock market but if you invest properly into real estate or even private lending in your retirement account you can get a much higher return than 8%. 

Now let me emphasize personally being listed as a defendant is rarely an issue from an asset protection perspective because the plaintiffs attorney cares more about insurance proceeds than your personal assets.

From a financing perspective you will most definitely need to start saving aggressively so you can qualify for investment property loans as they require a minimum of 15-25% down.

From demand perspective, we had ~9,300 move to St.

My partner and I are fresh into the real estate investment market and want to learn as much as possible.

The additional amount in yr 1 was to help decrease the initial downpayment-Tenant responsible for all maintenance (but I did purchase them a home warranty to use) How does this work from a tracking perspective?

I can't tell you how many times when people would contact my agents fresh out of guru school.. and talk a BIG game  we are going to buy 20 30 properties we are building a team blah blah blah.. when in fact most of them borrowed the money for the course and are now trying to do business with smoke and mirrors.. real investors that have money if you lay this out the right way will probably go for it.. and SELLERS I can see that for sure.. but then again in the retail resi space so many people just are clueless and or really have very little liquidity that even sending you 1000 bucks up front could be a risk and stretch for them..

Is there anything else (from a tax perspective) that I'm missing? 

. - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-structuresLet me know if have questions or want to chat further - I can give you my investor perspective - text me at 512-368-9940 and we can chat further.PS.