My pleasure @Scott Rankin, looking forward to bringing everyone together to speak about some of the challenges that @Mark Miles brought up along with all the terrific benefits of investing in smaller markets has to offer. 

Challenges?

To say the past few months since the storms hit have been challenging would be an understatement.

Just wondering how you feel about the unique challenges NOLA has relative to economy & climate change (insurance), population decline.  

Or, the trust (with trustee other than yourself) owns the property with LLC as beneficiary.Costs: LLC registration, annual secretary of state fees, agent for service fees, bookkeeping fees, tax prep fees, attorney fees to unravel structure mistakes, others I can't think of.Also, there are challenges getting title insurance, property insurance and loans for a trust.This is a way to get your name out of public record, no comment on whether it's good or bad. 

The challenge is I don't where you are but how is the soil?

If you are struggling to make the numbers work, then it is likely not a deal to pursue.Our biggest challenge in the New Orleans area is the cost of insurance.

And most times, if you have that grind mentality, they will feel somewhat threatened by you ultimately becoming their competition (unless of course they are retiring or getting out of the business).I hope this somewhat helps.Georges Franco

Challenges?

Our biggest challenge is that we are not over 55+ and we would prefer to invest our money in the villages itself.