The teacher was an actual financial educator but they repeated themselves a lot and were telling the students to go in and apply for credit cards DURING the course to purchase the next course for $15,000!

If you buy upscale (desirable) properties in desirable areas as opposed to affordable (undesirable) crapboxes in undesirable areas you won’t need to entice tenants.

I often hear, "Oh, I didn’t know" or "Oh, I forgot about that," followed by reluctance to go through the effort of gathering the necessary documentation.

As long as you are getting your desired amount of cash flow after all of the expense then it should be good.

I use some mixed strategies to go on and off market, but I'm just generally curious what others are doing and finding that works for them?

To go a bit further into what Dmitriy mentioned, since your IRA earns the income the tax treatment is specific to your IRA.

Also make sure to build on a property located in a desirable location with larger pop density and if holding for rentals, charge median rent for that market as lenders want to see a bigger pool of buyers/renters available to occupy/sell. 

This is more common in today's market and often allows the seller to get a higher sale price than if you were to go through a bank/SBA loan.

When you have employees promoting the platform like it is the best platform ever and free accounting services, it was going to go down sooner or later.Pretty sure their other services are going to go down shortly.Baselane is offering assistance I believe, but they are just like Azibo.

Sounds like strategy call would make most sense to see what your goals are with REI and being an agent to determine if the organization I represent aligns with the direction you are looking to go.