When I see the $1300 just to cleanup the mess that the tenant left, it makes me want to hop on a plane and just do it myself.

I'd take this as a toy over a private plane or something.

During the first 2 weeks of the rehab, during planing and clean up, we will continue to market the property to investors in order to keep our options open.

Driving 20 minutes to be on site is far different than needing a 2 or 3 hour plane flight to get there. 

Thanks Nate T.Also, I am planing to keep the rentals I acquire as a long term buy and hold. 

It is time to get on a plane and go to Memphis and start to learn the landscape.

They are often used for estate planing, and in conjunction with an LLC, they might offer some anonymity or privacy protection (as they might remove your name from a county search on current deeds).

If you want to be a real estate investor, then be a real estate investor.Do you remember in the movie "Top Gun" where the guys were not getting their planes off the ground in a short span and they were thinking it was impossible until the instructor showed them that yes, it can be done?

I want to read it on my next plane ride without internet.

For investors who own or looking to purchase properties in a Flood plane, make sure to factor in these future premium increases FEMA will implement April 2015.