- Not Required for FEMA Pricing: Homeowners are no longer required to provide an elevation certificate to get flood insurance through the NFIP.- Optional Benefit: If you believe an elevation certificate shows your property is at a lower risk than FEMA's assessment, you can submit one to potentially lower your premium.

He can spend the next few years-ish getting a finance degree through an online school while working part time, but he just got offered a full time position helping with sales for a local wholesale real estate company. 

With $110K, you’re in a good starting spot, but Florida flips can burn through that quick, so sometimes you gotta think a little different.

The best strategy I seem to have deployed so far was to contact all my current tenants and let them know I’d give them a cash referral fee of $250 for anyone they recommend to me that goes through the vetting process and successfully moves in.

Most others find seller-financed deals through pulling data on property owners in the areas they want to buy that have a lot of equity in their homes.

You prpobably don't care about Ohio, but their requirements might be instructive.You can only file January 1 through March 31.

In those cases, you have to go through the courts to get possession back.

I personally would not invest in detroit as historically its not a appreciating market and for cash flow and I invest primarily for appreciation - I go off the location location location mantra. 

In Berlin, rental arbitrage has been very profitable, with average annual margins of 25-40% after all costs but before taxes, so shifting to a market where arbitrage is barely breaking even is definitely a reality check.Given your experience, would you say the best way to enter the market now is through purchasing properties with financing?

Our tenant would have a key and could assist people in through that entrance if needed.We closed, and at closing the developer signed a contract to install a door and escrowed $20,000 in the event they did not end up doing it.