@John Warren thank you for the calm perspective.

But for illustration purposes since this is a fresh transactional matter on my plate: The reimbursable lender legal fees for an $8.5M loan transaction I was recently apart of (as a buyer, not fees I charged) were less than $15,000.00.

Interestingly, our local politics is one of the draws for STR investors in this region.Hope this helps provide a local perspective!

The way I've seen this work from a cost savings perspective is to hire an overseas bookkeeper to do the busy work, but also have someone higher level available to answer questions and to record the more complicated transactions.

I know that the landscape has changed quite a lot and I wonder if you have any perspective on how to find good syndications opportunities and which ones to avoid.

Good management and fresh clean apartments bring top of the market rent to a re-emerging work force ready to serve the warehouse industry in a once great industrial railroad city. 

Your software sales background adds a fresh perspective.Here, you'll learn from pros, get market insights, and master property investment.Best of luck,Julio

As a mental exercise, can you imagine the perspective of an investor that bought a property from you just 8 months prior to that email, had his FIRST TENANT miss payments, lie about making payments, make partial payments, then ultimately skip out on four months rent?

Find a good qualified realtor that knows the area well that is willing to not only work with you, but teach some of the business from their perspective.

I am open to different perspectives too, if someone has had a positive experience with smokers, I am all ears!