My business partner and I just opened up our property managment company in the Chicago/Chicagoland area and it is not easy to do this the "right way".Honestly you can get yourself into some serious trouble if something happened with a tenant, an injury, anything and they sue and find out you don't have a license.

To start out, I'm finding renters on my own and am not renting through AirBnb or VBRO.

So you are better off finding someone who wants to rean interest on their money and getting a promissory note signed and giving them a 10% interest rate and having them give you a 15k loan interés only for a 12-24 month period.

Your story is incredible—going from finding housing investments “boring” to spearheading syndications and tackling Boise’s housing crisis head-on is no small feat!

It is really good that you are trying to find a focus.

The challenge was finding a GC that had good communication and understood ROI for every dollar he charged us.

I’ve been coaching new investors for a while and many lack funds to get started but find both the lack of knowledge, experience, and funds, often derails them. 

Lots of great info on here as well, and like they're saying the best thing to do is to find an experience broker / realtor who can help you navigate which neighborhoods to target and which ones to stay away from, as well helping you to build out your team for property managers, lenders, inspectors, contractors, ect.

The local who lives there but commutes 30-60 min to another community because they can’t find a job to support their family in their town.That same local knows that a 4plex would be great on that lot that’s been vacant for 20 years and that there are at least 4 families who could benefit greatly from that development.That local knows that Ryan’s plumbing and Katie’s electrical companies that service 75% of the town really needs a new flex space to use as a shop, storage, and parking for their business so that they aren’t working out of their garage and can hire a couple of locals to work with them at the office and in the field.Development is different in our small towns but if locals aren’t the ones doing it, and developers aren’t coming, what happens to our kids futures?

Provide a detailed accounting of deductions, along with the invoices, to show you’re acting in good faith.