Prices stopped climbing, unemployment grew, and individuals sud denly realized that they were no longer holding on to investments but rather playing in the world’s largest game of legalized gambling—and they had just lost.

Realize at the outset that real estate will involve all different types to service, maintain, repair, improve, insure, manage and eventually sell.  

A 5.75% streamline today seems like something to grab your attention but you would soon realize that's not the rate they would be offering as they say "no-cost rate changes".  

His point is well made, the DIY bias is strong on this forum, and my wife and I realized that we can only take ourselves so far before we need a coach to help us level up.

Just realize that it requires many specific conditions to be met, and has much greater risk elements that you need to be prepared to potentially go wrong.

The real "holly-cow" moment is realizing it's been in front of ones face the whole time. 

Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac won't touch them.Many buildings allow STR because they realize there are a lot of out-of-state and foreign national buyers wanting to place their money in the Miami real estate market because it is such a good investment.

Our priorities in terms of market is there needs to be- anticipated economic growth (lots of tech companies are moving into Columbus),- prices need to allow us to buy in all cash (400k or less, ideally up to 300k),- we want the area to be safe (when looking into places like Dayton, OH or Memphis, TN for instance it looks like all our boxes are checked on paper, numbers wise but we realized quickly there are a lot of unsafe areas and we could have the potential for problem tenants)- yearly expenses to be relatively low (i.e. we are avoiding NYC and the tri state area, California, etc. for having extremely high taxes).Is our initial analysis on the right track for Columbus?

3B) Many people don't realize that you CAN take depreciation *inside* of a SDIRA *if* you are also using leverage in it.

Once I pointed how really little it affects my commission they all realized how stupid were there concerns and how little I make, especially all the time I have to put into just one transaction