Always use a property manager to keep your real estate investments as passive as possible and keep you compliant with Fair Housing laws.This way you can learn to manage the property manager and learn from experience as you go.If you buy a bunch of properties all at once, they may not all fit your buying criteria, there may be deferred maintenance that needs to be dealt with all at the same time, and you will not have accumulated the management experience building your portfolio one at a time.To Your Success!

Sometimes you have to get in where you fit in.

I'm interested in running the business without being involved in the daily operations of the facility after the first year.

Talk to different agents in different brokerages and get a feel for what might be a good fit for you.

Purchase price: $35,000 Cash invested: $35,000 Sale price: $110,000 Purchased off-market from a tired landlord, this fix-and-flip involved renovating a distressed property with outdated features and deferred maintenance.

Purchase price: $35,000 Cash invested: $35,000 Sale price: $110,000 A fix-and-flip project purchased off-market from a tired landlord involved buying a distressed property with significant deferred maintenance.

-Transfer the property into an LLC – This may allow me to take ownership while potentially avoiding property tax reassessment, however this sounds like an involved process-Establish a living trust for my aunt and mother – The trust would specify that I inherit the property upon their passing and provide step up in cost basis but i'm worried that the living trust can be modified to have me removed (who knows what can happen) - My mother is somewhat volatile.I would like to live in the property and my mother will live in her second property with her husband. 

These are non-performing mortgages and the homes are vacant and in preforeclosure.This doesn’t fit my typical passive, turnkey investment model, but I am considering taking on a local property as a “fun” project.

Your asset size makes it a good fit for Furnished Finder.

It’s likely the GC will subcontract the concrete work to a specialist while they focus on managing the permitting process and ensuring everything is done to code—especially if there are ADA requirements involved for the ramp.Let me know if you need help navigating the process or any tips for working with contractors.