Do you want to be an active investor, building those systems and teams while traveling to do so or would you prefer something more passive?

Thank you to anybody who responds.Visit some local real estate investing meetups in your area or ask the local lenders who their most active clients are. 

Open Door is now soliciting funds actively on Fund IV and I'm interested to hear feedback.

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Then I'm looking at the active comps in the area as well as what the market in that location has done over the past month.

Your best bet are the (relatively speaking) higher cash flow markets in the midwest and southeast and perhaps a few in the rust belt.

We’re actively working toward building a real estate portfolio that will generate passive income and create financial security for our future.

Deposits will not be returned (full or partial) until all tenants move out.If Tenant A didn’t come to you to get part of the deposit back they may have gone to tenant B, but they most likely walked away from it and I feel it is between tenant A and B to sort it out.Personally I would return it to tenant B, the active tenant in the current active contract.

Quote from @Gregory Wilson: A few things there, Brendan.First, an LLC with you as a member and your (wife, son, pal, etc.) partner as a 1% member will file a Form 1065 which is about one tenth as likely to be audited by the IRS as a Form 1040 with a Schedule E rental activity (which I presume you will attempt to show is an active business).Second, you want an LLC because when your local Alabama handyman drives his girlfriend's uninsured truck into a van load of U of A medical school interns on I-22 when he goes  to get some shingles for your roof, on your business, you don't lose everything you have or ever will have to an uninsured claim. 

One was actively investing in a property that was in PA but significantly far from where I live.