I am a licensed and independent real estate broker who actually lives in Tulum, so I have firsthand experience with some of these aspects.There has been an increase in the supply, which is making the rental market more competitive.

There must be something in the middle of my $376 TurboTax Premier (with audit protection) fee that I pay to do my own taxes (federal and 2 states that my rentals are in) and $10,000.  

You can learn to do this independently or get a rockstar REALTOR to lead the way.

The independent home inspector we used from Orlando (we've used before and trust) said the home is well-built.

Just as in sports, the path to financial independence through investment requires experience and visibility.In the world of investing, especially with OPM, experience plays a critical role.

Hey Michael - I'd love to give you a specific pointers if you'd like me to run an audit of your listing. 

Hint: look for a solar architect, who acts as an adviser and works for you and audits the installer project proposal.Many states/utilities are no longer allowing net metering (kWh for kWh) and use instead all kinds of payback schemes (e.g. if you over-produce, they will gladly take your kWh for 3 cents and graciously allow you to take it back at night for 22cents - end result being, if your system is not properly sized, you will be producing energy for the utility and never recover the costs of the installation).

The challenging tenant irrelevantly refers to the other tenant’s sex life when confronting them.Multiple tenants have independently expressed similar complaints about the challenging tenant.Reading the lease ( Copy of Lease ) more carefully, we realize now that it could be stronger in areas of being able to terminate the lease - a lesson learned for future tenant leases.The challenging tenant’s lease ends in August 2024, but we were wondering if there is anything that we can do to terminate her lease early based on the lease that we signed.

Since the beginning of the year we have seen mergers and layoffs at:….City National Bank to cut 56 jobs in Los Angeles (2/14/24)Guild Mortgage acquires Academy Mortgage (2/13/24)Proprietary Capital acquires American Financial Resources, LLC (2/12/24)1st Priority Mortgage to acquire Hudson United Mortgage (2/6/24)Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. to shutter wholesale lending division (2/2/24)Newrez layoffs (2/2/24)New American Funding (NAF) to acquire Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.

These LOCs will be unsecured and if it means anything, we have no business/investment history, as we're just starting; perhaps lower fee LOCs can be attained from a proven business with a history, or perhaps these fees are high independent of that?