I personally love Columbus Ohio and as someone who works with a lot of out of state investors - there's so many catalysts for why you should invest here.

Hey all -Trying to think through some innovative ways to get started on the REI journey.  

There's so many catalysts for population and job growth (Intel, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide Hospital, etc).

Hi Karim, I personally love Columbus Ohio and as someone who works with a lot of out of state investors - there's so many catalysts for why you should invest here.

Despite the early start, the true catalyst was a robust passive income stream I was fortunate to invest in.

Aside from being a landlord-friendly state, there's so many catalysts for population and job growth (Intel, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide Hospital, etc).

I ask because I keep a comparison chart of real estate crowdfunding investments, and I’m constantly on the lookout for new and innovative platforms that I haven’t investigated yet.

A broker can only manage 6 (yes 6) units before having to go through an entirely separate licensing procedure to register a property management company.This means that if you plan on managing 7 or more units, you need to convince a broker to open a newly licensed entity with a separate trust account from their normal operations.So there are really only two paths that you should consider.  1) Getting your own broker's license so you can control the administrative load 2) Affiliating with a brokerage with an existing property management division.In Cache Valley, the brokerages that I'm aware of that have property management are:--Achievement Realty--Century 21 / Preferred Property Management--Coldwell Banker / Catalyst Property Management--Connect / Reeder Property Management--Dwell / Reside--Equity Real Estate / Equity Property ManagementThere are smaller shops which only have a few doors or are management pure-plays, but these are the more established ones up here.I'd talk to all of them before taking on more than a handful of clients.

This isn't the same as normal course of business and should not be treated as such.I think that instead of digging in our heels to pretend this is no big deal or digging in our heels to panic - there is a median we should follow that should have us all push for a more innovative approach to this that helps us all.  

@Cailyn Aune  I can only go by my own experience that is over 4 decades.and Real estate tends to go in 10 year cycles at least in California.but when I think of each down turn it was for a completely different reasonmid 70's  end of viet nam warmid 80s was high interest and RTC89 was war in Iraq and Loma preita earthquakelate 2001 was a short live dot com bubble2008 the mother of all melt downsso here we are 8 years later .. low interest high employment NO liar loans.. 20 to 30% of all properties being sold in cash... land use regulations.. increasing population in areas that people actually want to live.will we melt down in 2 years I don't know but who knows what the catalyst will be since its never been the same thing twice.