Enough” - “Your success as an investor will be determined by how you respond to punctuated moments of terror, not the years spend on cruise control”The Noticer: - “One way to define wisdom, is the ability to see into the future the consequences of your choices in the present.

E-mail with details has been sent your way.Also, thank you @Jonathan Greene for helping to point this to the right person for assistance.

Plus, Zillow, Rentler and the other real estate platforms tend to have all sorts of unnecessary hoops to jump through for landlords, and I find a lot of their design very un-intuitive (I remember spending waaayyy too much time just trying to figure out simple things in Rentler).  ...why can't they make it easier?

It’s safer, and honestly you aren’t spending it, you’re moving it from one asset class to another.

Seeing people give others money for down payment assistance etc. to me is just plain dumb.

At the time my only issue was their loans appear to be backed by wall st.. so the closing docs were enough to kill not one but two trees and took way more time to sign the  whole package then I like to spend signing closing docs :)  But thier fee's and rates are hard to beat. 

You can spend as little as $100 to form an LLC, or you could use an attorney and spend $1,000 or more.

We work with a lot of relocation clients and when I ask many of them say, they had no idea, but they visited a while ago and really liked it.. 450k is about the most you can spend on a duplex here.

If you don't have a virtual assistant yet, I'd recommend getting one to help with things like tenant communications and coordinating contractors.

The last thing we want to do is make the house not pop from the street when we spent a lot of money on the inside, it's really the cherry on top.We use comps to decide how much to spend on the landscaping and how to style the landscape.