There is an apartment complex where I live (SE TN) that has always been appealing to me.

Typically 20 - 30 SE Michigan investors turn out for conversation and camaraderie which also plants the seeds for doing deals together.

I'm currently an operational strategist for a large financial services company in SE PA and am planning to begin investing in real estate in the near future.I'm a big fan of "transformation" having extensively renovated my own homes over the years.

@Brian Scott  I would assume you bought these as "cash flow rentals"  and its not per se home you lived in and rented out when you moved etc. 

I am little surprised at the rents the Triplex is pulling.I bought a Duplex in SE Houston back in September, I had to put 25% down.

You receive a W-2 from an investment banking firm - no need for a company there, earned income.You receive a W-2 from the DJ business now and so you would not want to receive wages or earned income and deposit it into an LLC and report that as SE income and be subject to the SE taxes a second time on the same money and you would not want to deposit it into an S-corp and then be forced to pay yourself W-2 earnings and pay payroll taxes (same as SE tax) for a second time on the same money again.The only question left is the side gigs you do and I would put that on your Sched C income and buy yourself a bond insurance policy which is probably pretty cheap.Joe

I've lived in SE Asia for many years and I've also considered buying.

Hi, @Richard Arden, I focus on SE CT, too.

If you buy right, you can hit the ground running and just start collecting $, but they tend to be expensive when buying turnkey per se. 

We're currently house hacking a duplex in SE PDX and our tenants are paying 70 percent of our mortgage payment.