To each his or her own.There is a main meeting in Ambler that attracts hundreds of attendees; there are subgroups that meet throughout the Delaware Valley area where attendance numbers from ten to fifty, so perhaps that suits you better.As to "pay to play", yes there is a membership fee - some consider it to be worth the nominal expense, others don't.

Many are free and some have a nominal cost.

Real estate then nominal (or on average across the us) returns 10-12% which mimics the S&P 500.  

Make sure you are able to make changes to the listing after it has been posted for a nominal fee.

Named trustee may provide you a resignation and then nominate you or another as successor trustee. 

Twenty or more years ago we would have to put an ad in the newspaper with all kinds of silly abbreviations to keep the ad as small as possible, because the newspaper publisher had to be paid for such ads and charged per line of text that was printed.Be glad you can write out as much text as you want, and even include pictures, for a nominal charge.Having said that, there was another thread on this topic where I tried to see if TurboTenant was charging to place ads on the Zillow network of sites; that could be a solution, and even if not they will post to lots of sites to increase exposure.

That's the real short of it.Legal entity's such as LLC's provide no tax advantage unless investing with non-spousal partners (its the same tax, but needs to be split between the partners).My personal pet peeve is to remember that depreciation has to be paid back in taxes at nominally 25% to the IRS when you sell. 

It may be the better option to make some improvements and then raise the rent nominally.  

Considering that renter’s insurance is typically for nominal amounts, the benefit to a landlord of being a named insured is minimal, and can backfire as shown in the article’s examples.As a landlord, make sure your property is adequately covered and your liability risk as well.

Hi,I was almost certain this would have been addressed before but possibly my search skills aren’t great and I couldn’t find straightforward answers.I was wondering what are the different and recommended ways for larger fund transactions for things like rehab costs and rents for bigger multi units to and from a friend who is helping manage property.The situation being, many of the tenants prefer just handing cash to the owner or property manager and the individual is not an established property manager and is only helping as a favor with nominal pay.Wondering if there are straightforward and widely used options instead of the hassle of involving “property manager’s” bank account in between and them having to deal with all that - especially given its just a local help and not really an established property management company.I am thinking something like straightforward cash deposits with whatever id/info needed with banks but looks like a lot of banks don’t allow deposits by non account owners.May be cashiers check is an answer here but I was not sure if even that can be deposited by non account owners and might have to be snail mailed out to me.Hopefully there are faster and easier options being used that I may have overlooked given the use case.Thanks much in advance :)