@Lauren Lewis, also one of our members Barb Mayne hosts a monthly meeting for the Topeka / Lawrence areas - it is on the MAREI Calendar and she also has a facebook group and a group on meetup - eKARI  Eastern Kansas Association of Real Estate Investors.

As a property owner, I get a lot of these calls.

Using a percentage of rent is not a good way to allocate maintenance/cap ex. 

If I did I would been out of my 9-5 4 years earlier I bet. 

I believe a large portion of the users on here owe at least a small portion, if not a large portion, of their success to this community.  

It reminds me of one of the TAX sale how to traveling freebie events that came to town last spring..

If you're in a high-cost area, consider out-of-state markets where you could buy a rental property outright. 

We are working on getting a new insurance policy for one of our properties. small 3 unit property on the Oregon Coast.

The process involves deeding the property to a land trust and then assigning the beneficial interest of the trust to an LLC for asset protection purposes.2.

My Dallas property has been one of my best investments, but it's only been about 9 months.