Start by researching different types of properties, such as residential, commercial, or rental investments, to determine which aligns best with your goals.Building a strong network is also crucial.

Another aspect of this is parasitical family members who are suddenly "close to you" and need accommodation because of some unexpected and horrible and unfair emergency. 

The Creative Investor Meetup is designed for beginning to advanced investors who would like additional strategies when constructing deals.All aspects of real estate investing will be covered including (but not limited to) - Wholesaling, Flipping, Buy and Hold and Commercial with an emphasis on Creative Financing.

You can oversee this aspect from the background but don't try to directly engage a GC from out of State without having someone tied to your success there to watch what's going on.

The aspects that would make me look very hard are: 1) how do I ever actually get my $$ back out of the UPREIT?

I believe it's a great and thriving community with unique aspects that make it stand out from other markets in Texas. 

I'm struggling to understand some aspects of your response, but it provides some things to think about.

Btw, this kind of note-taking has been extremely helpful in other aspects of my life, and I imagine it will work quite well for real estate as well. 

This is 100% the most misunderstood aspect of rental income. 

When she moved out I tried to keep it section 8 with section 8 but the Housing Authority made it pretty difficult.Two aspects I didn't see covered above is:1.