I listened to your podcast twice actually and took a bunch of notes from what you spoke about and am looking forward to reading your ebook!

IREM has a white paper on the difference between property and asset management (industry term for managing the manager): http://www.irem.org/Bookstore/eBooks/id-13374117/I...When it comes to staffing my experience owning a general contracting company taught me that you need to have that function centralized, in the case of real estate preferably by the property management company so that you're not in the cat herding business.

We have a good relationship and he is very complimentary of my properties as I renovate them to make safe/healthy housing available to people.  

More often than not international investors get worse terms than local: 6-10% interest, 10-15 year amortization.Citibank might offer than complimentary credit offering in the US based on their relationship with CitiBank in UK.

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Thank you for the ebook I will definatly use this as I go.

That post was complimentary to both that author and me, thank you, but your post seemed to imply acceptance as to the creativeness of dangerous ideas. 

I'm a BRAND spankin' newbie here (and to REI, in fact) and I've spent about a week reading everything I can get my hands on, including Phil's free ebook.

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Have a look at this book toohttps://www.amazon.com/Passive-Investing-Commercial-Real-Estate-ebook/dp/B07MYCK56B