Title companies are another great resource. investor friendly title companies work with investors daily.

You can't control everyone everywhere, especially if you have mid size team and hundreds or thousands of customers who submit tickets on daily basis.

I'm not against hiring people without a solid estimate for the whole project but then it just means the work is paid based on an hourly / daily rate and I get daily updates on the progress and I watch them very very closely.

Energy cost affects every aspect of our daily lives.  

Find out what the daily labor rate is.

Once you've done a little educating through a $10 book and some free podcasts (the good ones), the main driver of your success is consistent daily action.

Some of us are on the forums daily, while others may only log in once a week or less.

If it is a legit ESA, it still has to abide by the usual criteria (no barking, biting, and/or destruction, picked up after (we have daily requirement for private yards, immediately for shared/public areas)Good luck.  

I feel like just about every month, I see RE investors with 1-2 year's experience starting a new fund and advertising on Facebook for LP's, as well as the daily "JV deals" that straight-up violate securities laws.

FYI in cleveland when the city sees the owner as an out of state entity you are put right in the cross hairs and they will literally go measure the grass and fine you and make it a criminal offense. so in cuyahoga county yes i agree to use a LLC but I would do an ohio one.