Win / win with a new income stream and lower landlord utility expenses.If you can use the tax credits the solar carport avenue has an enormous return on investment if you can charge a decent rent for covered parking.

Once you have everything set up, the time it will save is enormous, especially at tax time.

If you're in the "desert of CA", and they have the AC set at 60 you could have some enormous bills.Go over and do an inspection to make sure nothing's amiss, like grow lights and pot plants.

Self directed accounts can provide enormous flexibility. 

Our lawyers were incredible and didn't charge us until we won.The fraud and retaliation lawsuits alone will cost you enormously more than the 30k you were thinking for eviction costs. 

I’ve read many replies about not using lock boxes because of the risk someone trashing the property, stealing items, putting the home up for rent after knowing the code, losing the keys, not putting keys back in the box, you want to see/get a “feel” for the type of person they are, etc.People also recommended ways to prevent this by requiring photo identification of anyone viewing the property and only giving them the code once they have arrived at the property.It seems that if you had more than 3-5 properties that you are managing or listing it would be an enormous waste of time and maybe impossible depending on the location of the properties to meet every screened/prospective tenant at each house.

MLS doesn't have anything to do with a contract, or the fact that you don't have an agent.If you are considering going into the Wholesaling business, without a license, and without any experience, there are more things to be worried about than a Seller who would take on the enormous liability of contracting with two different parties in order to sell their house. 

If you try to explain to them that no one has generated a 20% IRR in those areas for years (at least not without taking enormous risk and timing the markets exactly right), and that they should invest somewhere else, they usually go and find someone who will lie to them and tell them that they can get those returns in the markets they want.At this point, I only deal with foreign investors who are more sophisticated and have experience investing here, particularly outside the Big Six markets.

Specifically, in a model where we leverage with debt, the difference between a 50% NOI:gross rent ratio and a 40% or 60% ratio is enormous when translated into our actual ROI.

Enormous red flags exist all over the place.