Look into loans that cater to investors, and consider speaking with a financial advisor about leveraging your stock investments.Property Type: Single-family homes or small multifamily units (like duplexes or triplexes) are often a good starting point for first-time real estate investors.

I'm a first-time real estate investor based in Germany, eager to learn and start my journey, of Italian citizenship.

Maintain the absolute highest standards of appearance, cleanliness and service and families will be beating your door down.  

And speaking about retail, you also have other real world issues that can impact things: co-tenancy requirements, use restrictions, etc, that may not be an issue with the current tenant lineup, but can certainly impact your ability to fill vacancies or maintain occupancy as tenants roll.And to address what seem to be your follow-on questions for people: there is no exhaustive list.  

It'll keep you organized and help you maintain meaningful connections with your network.

The biggest problem is constant litter and dumping by non-tenants and petty vandalism.Even in this neighborhood, I believe that because we maintain our buildings well and are willing to do payment plans, we have four (of 8) tenants with B.S. degrees and a fifth in his 3rd year of a BS.

This way, all income and expenses related to the cottage can be run through the new LLC and its corresponding bank account.Additionally, make sure that you’re not mixing or commingling any personal transactions with your business transactions or transactions between the different properties to maintain clear separation and avoid potential issues.

Thank you Theresa, I also suspect that they lied about the three girls who have already moved in, but since they paid rent on time and the property seems got decently maintained (my PM just walk through it), I just want to put up with them, and sign a new agreement which will add the new people in.

My personal average for a 2 unit detached is closer to $300, for an older property I think $300-400 is reasonable (not including vacancy).Are you allowed to offload utilities to tenants even if maintain the relationship with the utility company?

Interest rates are poised to start coming down and refinancing is how you time real estate.