I had a friend who house-hacked a duplex and found that while being next-door helped him quickly resolve issues, it was tricky keeping the relationship professional.

Buy a townhouse in this development near where I live called Sea Colony:Details: $860k for a comfortable townhouse.Pros:Comfortable place to live for the next few years, and I’d still have liquidity to invest elsewhere.It is still in my current community where all of my friends live, so I would still be where I want to be location-wise.Will get appreciation.Cons:High HOA fees ($660/month) and potential 10k special assessment in the next few years.Likely won’t cash flow after we move, so unsure whether it would make sense to hold.3.

One of my friends had a house where the neighbors tree had a huge branch that crossed the property line and was actually overhanging and touching his roof. 

When you tell your friends you are a real estate investor, they want to hear you are investing in flips and cool multifamily properties.

I do it several times a day as a habit now.I absolutely agree with the suggestion above to make friends with realtors.

I recently went into a 50/50 LLC with a college friend to buy our first property in the college town we attended.

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Also, what are you doing to make sure you are speaking to the actual landlord and not an applicant's friend posing as their landlord?

I'm hoping to make an offer to a retiring friend who has a house to sell. 

Also, any investor friendly agents in the area?