In most cases, I don't recommend renting out your primary residence especially if you have no rental experience and that is because usually your primary residence was bought without the idea of renting it out.  

Hello, my name is Kamarye Hodges and I am a broker, I wish to gain insight and experience.

I spent a decade in advertising, before founding and running a custom wood shop for another decade, so 'm pretty good at the self-promotion.I agree with you that the more gorilla approach would be most effective and that's actually what i've been doing – calling RE agents in my service area with active listings, introducing myself to property managers and leasing agents...To answer your question, I will have to handle the work myself for 6-12 months to build out the SOPs and field service management systems, but I have a lot of relationships for those looking to "do the work".I'll check out the meet up and would love to grab a cup of coffee, I'll shoot you an email.

If anyone has any experience on either end of a transaction like this i would be interested in hearing from you.

And yes this will be a huge learning experience.

That might be one suggestion to get your feet wet - invest with a family member who has more experience.

And there are a lot of cash buyers out there with way more cash and way more experience than you....

Coming from a family of lawyers the ones in my experience that make less than that are usually just not that motivated or are not that good at what they do.  

Does anyone know of good real estate agents that are in Findlay Ohio and have experience and are investor-focused?

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