Don't trust one, compare all 3 in my opinion. 

It’s a great way to get a feel for being a landlord while building your trusted team.If you’re focused on cash flow, the Cleveland/Dayton area is worth considering.

It depends on his goals, but if he's looking for cash flow I would buy a secured first trust deed.

By the way, these are the choices I have:(OAPR) PROBATE/GUARDIANSHIP ORDER APPOINTING PR/GDN(OAW) PROBATE ORDER ADMITTING WILL(ODPR) PROBATE/GUARDIANSHIP ORDER DISCH PR/GDN(PBO) PROBATE/GUARDIANSHIP MISC ORDER(PTPR) PROBATE/GUARDIANSHIP PETITION DISCH PR/GDNThese are some "trust" categories:(TRNOT) NOTICE OF APPLICATION(TR) TRUST

Also make sure all your friends & social media contacts know you’re in real estate as people who already know, like & trust you are the best sources of business.  

If there is debt on the property you run into the debt-financed property issue which can cause the rent to be treated as UBIT and be subject to the trust tax rate which increases to 37% extremely fast.

This is not legal advice in any way, but I hold my properties (flips, rentals..everything) in Land Trusts and have my LLC be the beneficiary of the trust.

thanks - the above average properties will be seen and snapped up ...if interested in buying another property - get  pre approved so you can be prepared  to make an offer if a good property becomes avaiable - good luck  That's exactly what we did with our lender, Cambridge Trust, which recently was bought out and is now Eastern Bank. 

I trust documentation over references from people.

If nothing else, prices are down a couple of points this year in Denver, so that's a relative positive over my last purchase.If I was 20 years older, and had 20 more years of compounding and contributions in my 401(k), the private lending world would be a major part of my portfolio strategy right now, as I think yields are really attractive there.It's tough out there, but I trust what I know in small residential more than going all in on more index funds or bitcoin, and lending is just too tax inefficient until I have more time to build wealth in my SDIRA.