Use a 1031 exchange to defer taxes and reinvest in more lucrative, cash flow-positive properties or diversify into passive investments like syndications.Pay Down Debt: With limited cash flow, focus on paying off the HELOC or smaller mortgages.

Different entities have different review & permitting timelines. 

After reviewing the documents yes I believe I gave an unsecured loan on 2 properties.

We still see 1% positive cash flowing deals with appreciation potential. 

Has anyone been involved/purchased Joe Asamoah’s E- courses or JV programs? Looking to get some feedback on the quality of the course curriculum.I see he’s a renowned and respectable individual in the industry, With s...

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

It's challenging to find lenders that are willing to be in 2nd position on an investment property, but I called quite a few during the process. 

@Laura Casneri am in a similar position, i am making an offer every couple of months or so, and either getting outbid or the seller doesn't want to sell. 

Toledo's Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority...LMHA which administers the Section 8 program seems to have had a difficult 2016 and 2017 doesn't seem much better.I've been renting to Section 8 for seven years now, I still have my original tenant in fact, and normally I find great satisfaction in renting to good tenants and working with the bureaucracy that comes with a government program...I had 10 properties rented section 8 at one point and have slowly prioritized standard rentals over the program and now am seeing blatant issues with their operations causing me to move away from considering their tenants.Delays in the program: We used to have 5 business day's delay for new-tenant vouchers to be reviewed and processed for inspection but have been going weeks before we hear anything.

Just make sure to have an inspection period to check out all the units, review leases, make sure tenants are paying (are leases month to month, when leases go through, everyone paying on time or are some behind, how long have they been living there/did they just moved in).