Are there any tools or strategies you swear by?

Focus on building a strong team, using BP tools to analyze markets, and researching local laws.

I've seen some options recently for credit reporting for your tenants rent payments. Is this something you've ever done as an individual landlord, or is this something more for larger multi-family properties only? One...

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I feel like in today’s day in age there are so many tools for STR operations and I cannot believe there is no integration for a merchant of sale transaction or some kind of financial app/ software that can take the remitted taxes and pay them to the government automatically.

Use such credit as a tool though, not as a crutch. 

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Do you have some tool for determining the median credit score for a given neighborhood?

I second Transunion as a decent screening tool.

Both strategies are great and have their pros and consOne of the biggest wealth building tools in real estate is the ability to purchase a property as a primary residence and put less then 20% down.