So if you buy a $1m property the requestor instantly gets $500k in equity just for promising to manage it, and you instantly lose $500k out of the gates in addition to all the cash you put down?

The homes are much newer than the ones in Jackson by home prices are still quite reasonable and there are some very nice gated communities.

Has Bill Gates really added Billions more "value" to mankind than you or me?  

It's his connection to Gates, who I think is a horrible human.That aside, I'm a buy an hold guy so I like how he places his bet and then pretty much rides it forever.

There are long term macro trends at play like remote working (Bill Gates predicted that this would be a big trend in his 1995 book "The Road Ahead") which will definitely be accelerated as a result of this pandemic.

It does not have anything to do with landlording or how to but rather the nitty gritty of the taxes and how you can maximize your end results.As far as finding and selling, Find It, Fix It and Flip It was a terrific book in understanding how to increase the value of your property upon sale.All of these books and a few others gave me a greater understanding of the various puzzles involved so I could pick the pieces I wanted to form my own puzzle picture (my strategy) and to be honest with you, I hit it out of the gate on my first purchase because of these books, not because of this highway or that highway.

If I low-balled him right out the gate, I would have NEVER had a chance to buy a great property at a great price which turned out a great six figure profit.I hope this helps.

Is there a gate?

The latest 2 houses have granite counter top, tile and are in a gated community.My tenants are all professionals looking for "home".

So I got this luxury property in a very nice gated subdivision in the northern suburbs of Atlanta.