i'd have to have a team... but i'd have to have set up that team in person.  as

I think it depends on your comfort level and risk tolerance and you have to have trusted team in place to not see your properties in person. A

You have to view it from HOW do you make it a RESOURCE, a ROI, and that mindset of viewing HOW you make that wage, that person a ROI, that's what will really make it work.

All these comments promoting socialist style landlording, I say with absolute certainty they have 0 experience landlording or near to 0, because anyone with even novice level holdings and experience would never chastise someone for seeking fair market rents and offering a person a considerable discount from fair market in empathy for a 2decade+ rip-off that ran un-checked.

I don't begrudge him his success but I have a feeling that his real personality is quite different from that kindly persona he likes to project to the media.

@Sheryl Griffin,Just curious as to why you chose a C-Corp instead an S-Corp.As I understand it, income received through a C-Corp. is "doubled taxed": The C-Corp pays taxes on it before it pays you, then you pay taxes again (SUTA, FUTA, FICA and Workmen's Comp.).Also, not sure if a C-Corp needs a human person as at least one owner or if all the stock holders can be business entities ...

If you can't cross reference to make sure the person you are considering is indeed the same person as the person you found on the internet with a bad rap sheet, then it's not justified to use the information against them.

There are at least two answers. 1) Since you know the person a written agreement on a contractual basis may be sufficient. 2) When lending to people you don't know or don't know well you would have a Title Report, a promissory note and a Deed of Trust recorded against the property.

In the 6 situations I can think of right now in which I have rented to a group of people (other than a family or a couple), I have required them to appoint one person as the group representative, and it is that person who takes care of the security deposit, rent payments, and most correspondence.

A true service animal must preform at least two specific tasks for the disabled person. A