So I've built an official platform that takes all the lead emails (Zillow, Apartments.com, Realtor.com, etc), captures the email / name / and property address and sorts them into my online manager. 

So I bought off a legal 2 family house in Brooklyn which had an apartment upstairs but was taken out and everything was converted by the previous owner into one nice big house without any official permit to convert it..

You may still need drawings, but permits are still being reviewed & Issued.If you already have a permit, construction has officially been opened up in Philly as of May 1st. 

However, many elected officials are participating in class warfare and are pandering to what they see as a larger voting base (there are many more tenants than landlords in their constituents).This is reason #87 to avoid investing in these overreaching, tenant-friendly states. 

Whereas a loan from one person to another is much more straight forward (be sure you're still getting an official note drawn up by an attorney here).

There is no official investor group in the area, but the housing association holds a once a month meeting for landlords.

I am officially jumping in and purchasing a rental property but deciding to run as a Sole proprietor or LLC.

Just turned 30, finally grew my portfolio to officially 12 units (Just under $2 million worth) generating a healthy avg. 13-15% cap-rate on each unit with traditional financing over the span of the last 4 years. 

I am officially a top student in the School of Hard Knocks.

Well, familial status is a protected class and it would be very easy for an official to draw a connecting line between "don't like their kids" and "don't like kids".