YouTube is loaded with videos on how to buy, rehab, rent apartment buildings but there is little out there on the business side of entities and of course how to attack the commercial stuff like shopping centers on Loopnet.Everyone knows you need big money for the larger commercial down payments, and I do know that you need to play the business credit game with a seasoned entity/entities to get the millions you'll need for commercial.I advise starting a LLC or corporation in a favorable city, county, state where you know the land, and spending a good two years on compliance, credit and seasoning.  80-100 would be the target credit score on the entity with a dozen smaller credit lines before applying for a commercial loan.  

Jacksonville (where I've had properties for years) you can still get modest cash flow, but mostly it is become an appreciation play.  The

If you want to play the assignment game, probably not.

Once the deed is recorded, the lawyer at the title company can then prepare the deed in the LLC's name.It was frustrating at first, but that is the way most residential lenders play the game.

It may not happen to you and that would be great if it didn't; statistically, you need to play the odds. 

I have a job that demands most of my time and energy, so I think i want to play the soft game.so that leads to investing in REIT like options?  

Those who play the residential game are at the mercy of the market by way of direct sales "comps".

I really enjoy those jobs, especially as a musician (I play the drums). 

They continue to play the TVs and music exceptionally loud and do not care that tenants and I have let them know multiple times it is not acceptable.

Truly selling FSBO is fine, but if you're going to list on the MLS and want results, you pretty much have to play the game by the rules, which includes paying the prevailing BA commission