However it’s hard to get that ball rolling without any deals under my belt even though I do have experience with managing a syndication and property management through my professional career. 

Plenty of owners don't like S8 tenants, but this guy was pretty golden I thought, just bad circumstances and teacher income. 

Learning as we go since we had the house anyways .With long drives I discovered Bigger Pockets and it has lit a fire under  my tuckus to get more properties and keep the ball rolling Thanks for the advice -More data analysis and research for whatever we 1031 into next will definitely be a priority .Best-C.

I finally spoke to Luis who told me, "we definitely dropped the ball.

Nobody has a magic 8 ball, but here’s my guess: after a decade-long bull run and skyrocketing home prices, things are feeling shaky.

I'm particularly passionate about Start my journey soon.Outside of real estate, I enjoy Going camping and offroading while exploring new and exciting places with my 2 dogs, a lab and golden.

We were fortunate to get the ball rolling fairly quickly and only have to fork out 1.5 months of mortgage on our own. my partner thinks he can do all the taxes for the home and depreciation on turbo tax, as that’s what he’s been doing forever since he’s a w2 earner.

Elgin is a great rental property market, but the city does require inspections every 2 years, and you do have to take a landlord class.If you can househack a 3-4 unit building out in your area, that will be a golden ticket to get started. 

My accountant and bookkeeper have been dropping the ball and just seeing if there are sofware options available I may not be aware of. 

I started/continued cultivating about half dozen different commercial brokers, by taking incoming cold/warm calls from brokers for off market offers(calls I used to just hang up on) from their fund buyers and deep pocket private investors, and soon realized(as few of the brokers had warned) that off market deals for this asset are always gonna be low ball, no matter how premium my location.