There are plenty of real estate groups where investors are actively looking for properties.

A real estate professional can use real estate losses to offset W-2 or other income, but you would need to meet both the:1.750-hour rule – You must spend at least 750 hours per year in real estate activities.2.50% rule – More than 50% of your working time must be spent on real estate.Since both of you have W-2 jobs, it might be difficult to meet these requirements unless one of you dedicates significant time to real estate.Another option could be buying multiple rental properties.

No loans.In a country with few social safety nets for immigrants, especially for the Chinese, Abu used her fierce negotiation skills and supernatural intuitive business sense to live a very comfortable life and take care of her family.

One more question, do you think i would be able to advertise for bird dogs on my social media out to my followers/friends?

If you or someone you know is active in this space, I’d love to connect and discuss how we might collaborate on upcoming opportunities.Feel free to reach out directly via DM and I look forward to learning more about the local market and building strong partnerships!

@Peter FaulknerRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

We move fast and look at a LOT of properties when we are actively buying.

You already know those answers lol.You may find this interesting; My broker scraped the CSLB master list & found only 210k(+-) "active" licenses left.

.” — Lawrence Yun, NAR’s Chief Economist“The return of sellers to the market appeared stronger than that of buyers, continuing to lift the pool of active inventory and ease competitive pressure slightly over September.

We currently have a LLC that owns our existing rental property and we run the short term rental activities through this LLC with its own separate bank account.