I highly recommend looking into Columbus, Ohio as it is the most affordable market in the east coast with thriving economy and home to numerous Fortune 500 companies in relative to other markets.

That's exactly what I did.I took a empty lake front house with a private covered dock and made it into a thriving vacation rental.

That could be:- laundry- # of bathrooms- private yard with sprinklersSome scenarios which I've never faced but you might want to think about- highly uneven number of tenants not accounted for with bedrooms (I wouldn't normally base on people because that can fluctuate with tenant change)- highly uneven square footage not accounted for with bedrooms and bathrooms- a tenant that keeps a greenhouse, etc (I actually did have this when I first started in rentals and was paying water.

Renewable energy is undoubtedly going to be a massive industry and it needs real estate to thrive.

I believe that this region presents great opportunities for multifamily real estate investments, given its thriving economy, and population growth.

The brokerage you go to might train you and some might have better systems than others but they are still not going to do the work for you to be a success.You need to handle rejection like it is nothing to thrive in the business.I can make 1,000 calls a year for commercial real estate and owners can tell me to get lost all day long.Out of those 1,000 calls if I close 10 at six figures per deal you can figure out how well I do.

Transportation, manufacturing and warehousing continue to thrive in our area.Depending on where you buy, exactly, you can expect high appreciation.

A) depending on the scale, but you start to have a lot more full time real estate people in commercial than in residential, so the need to pay a finders fee is limited when you are your own finder, or you have your own acquisition team.B) there are far fewer commercial deals in any market than single family, so the universe to track down owners is less work.c) While there may be some groups that are able to put together off-market deals for their owner networks, again, because there are relatively fewer owners in commercial, you will have that much harder time breaking into it.In general, wholesalers thrive on people that don't what they have.  

Plus my primary business depends on the thriving economy of SF. 

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