There are opportunities in any community when you understand the demographic trends and other physical constraints (infrastructure, water, commute times, etc).2.

Mailings and other costs that you can incur this tax year while the benefits (income hopefully) land in the next tax year.Other infrastructure costs could also be a way to go if it makes sense to the business.John Corey

I mostly joined this forum because I've been monitoring the BP Blog and I found the information there to be very interesting and potentially beneficial (to me).I've been learning as much as I can about the RE industry because I believe that knowledge is power, not to mention I like to look well informed in front of my clients!

If you have some background as a loan officer i would say to monitor the loan itself to make sure of no turns and bumps.

;-)Actually, $2000/hour isn't unrealistic if you know how to quickly build businesses that don't rely on heavy infrastructure and can generate cashflow relatively quickly (what is espoused in the book).To do that takes a business-minded person with some experience and a bit of cash (in my opinion), but it's certainly doable...

When you can compete head to head with real estate agents and their method of advertising, the consumer will give you the same professionalism they give the real estate agents.One large caution, don’t start until you have your infrastructure in place.

Ask questions about their care plan and put in your lease the right to enter during pest spraying and filter change out so that you can monitor the situation.

So if the budgeted or actual expenses for the year were at $4.95 per sf, the tenant would be responsible for $1.20 per sf or $0.10 per sf per month.If you are an out-of-area investor and do not invest the time to monitor your investment property, you are going to lose in the long run and may lose in the short term.Reason being, even if the property is a Net lease, whether it is single, double or triple net, who is to say that tenant will actualy maintain the property to the same standard that you desire.Secondly, most tenants are not in the real estate business and as such, depend on either the owner personally or his property manager to take care of the issues relating to the ongoing maintenance of the property.Who are you going to call at 2 am in the morning when someone finds water all over the floors and flowing into the streets?

#3 – And lastly, right now list as many ideas as you can… and monitor this post… And later when you think of more ideas, come back and add another reply… Keep the ideas coming!

To observe or follow closely; monitor: Police bird-dogged the suspect's movements.2.