After that I hope to expand to other areas.

I'm particularly passionate about expanding my portfolio. 

I find that you can get private lenders or Joint Ventures easily and scale using those connections 

Operating agreements by a real attorney are also not cheap - that can easily be several thousand dollars per LLC.

and to be clear - no, there is no obvious / effortless / low risk way to put funds into something RE-related with no experience and easily beat savings or CD returns right now.lots of folks thought there was and got burned.getting in right now requires patience and money. 

And much less risk in terms of collections because you don't have to worry about evictions or damages (assuming your property management has the right coverage).And yes, you can easily point to the bust in 08 causing prices to drop or the covid rents coming back down as big changes. 

Don't overthink it and you won't have any problems that can't be solved easily I'm sure.

I've been considering expanding my investment reach to Louisville.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

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