It was an endless comedy of errors, not just the SA stores, but the entire HD org as a whole.

Debates on all of this are endless.  

We want to buy our first rental property, but are stumped as to how to mitigate financial risk (say through a joint llc) without making our taxes an endless nightmare (schedule E and 1040?).

So you just endlessly have loans, which are being paid off by the tenants, which builds equity, plus your monthly cash flow from each property, and all the while you’re accumulating more properties (compounding monthly cash flow) which is the name of the game.

HI Jack,Check with you city and see if they allow rooming houses (or whatever name they call them locally).In some areas they may have to have lockable bedroom doors, and in some areas they may prohibit lockable bedroom doors.There will be codes for this, as well as zoning, and the all important parking.Another concern is tenant type should match the neighborhood, and that's for your ability to keep tenants as well as the neighbors not filing endless complaints against you for everything they can think of.What I mean is if you start a halfway house for recovering derelicts in the middle of Beverly Hills the neighbors will probably cause you endless legal trouble until you close it down, and you will not have a lot of prospective tenants wanting to rent there because a cup of coffee is $18 and there are no pawn shops or liquor stores around.So even if you can do it, the question is should you do it there.just my 2 cents on this.Good Luck!

The list is endless....You have find a right balance, learn and adjust...

The list is really endless and oh by the way, even if you do all this nice stuff society will still view you as the rich landlord screwing over nice people.

Seems like there are endless managers who are great at raising money right now, but it's hard to tell which ones know how to operate on the ground (even more so than traditional syndications since it's so new).2.)

I hear endless pointers on “building relationships” all geared to relationships with brokers, banks, property managers, hard money lenders, potential partners, syndicators etc.

I make decisions more quickly now without having to agonize endlessly over second and third level details that don't mean anything in the broader scheme of things.