At the very least you get practice running numbers and if you share your thoughts with the realtor they will have a better idea of what you are looking for in the future.

I did one last year to swap from an “older property” built in the late 1990’s to a new build  I didn’t run out of reasons, but you get the point.

If your realtor is listing it for free and not helping, that's not much help since leaving you to screen tenants and run through leads is like asking you to perform knee surgery, you don't know what you are doing.All rental listings should get bombarded on Zillow Rental Manager and HotPads, etc in the first week so if you have limited activity, your price is either too high or the photos are bad and the copy about the place is bad.Use something like RentSpree from screening.

In the Kansas City metro area the river runs roughly west to east.

Look, I know the whole concept of a 1031 exchnage can feel a bit like reading a foreign language at first, but trust me, once you wrap your head around it, you might never look at property taxes the same way.

Quote from @Mike Johnson: Hi everyone, I was curious what might be some of the biggest problems to you run into while managing your properties?

Pretty sure her daughter was running a program buying there.

Detroit Police won't respond quickly and why would a PMC head over in the middle of the night to get shot?

One friend of mine had a client who recently tried running an Airbnb in a little Craftsman duplex near North Park.

He had a client who was debating between buying a small apartment building in L.A. or spreading out capital on multiple units in Phoenix.. after running the numbers with a dedicated local realtro who actually drove around neighborhoods, he opted for Phoenix because he could get more doors for the same cost.