Home equity is the difference between how much your house is worth and how much you still owe on your mortgage.

I’m not sure how investors are managing their properties from a different state when it seems to be impossible to find a reliable good property management company in Cahokia, do you have any advice or suggestions on this?  

These loans are for a minimum $100K to $1-1.5M (different loan guidelines depending on the max loan amount).

How long it takes to be financially ready is different for everyone.

I'm sure that many of the speakers will have different opinions depending on their area of expertise too

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

Their business model is interesting and has a couple different exits strategies when getting a property under contract.

Does anyone know, or have a good idea, about the difference in returns on entitling & developing the land for each scenario, with final objective to sell to a builder to build and sell the structures him/herself.  

Think there is some substantial validity in this, but do you think it could potentially be utilized in a different fashion?

They tell you you’re asking too much rent (you lower rent, avoid vacancy and make more money) ,your marketing is bad (they take new pictures, advertise in different places, change wording, whatever, and get a tenant saving vacancy.)