I’ve been involved in real estate investing for over 30 years, so if you ever have any questions or need guidance, feel free to reach out.

My strategy incorporates asset protection measures like LLCs, specific trusts as well as professional property management to spread risk and ensure quality operations.As well as using tax codes to my benfiitSection 179, IRC Section 162, Cost Segregation and Bonus Depreciation and later 1031 them out for larger projects. 

My plumber also said that it wasn’t the tenants fault and the city could also make me change the entire sewer line so I shouldn’t get the city involved.

The cost of a sewer line is the same whether it is on a triplex or a single family home, but with a MFU you can spread the risk.

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

If you are skilled in each of the areas above, and you have enough in reserves to cover the costs of when things do not go as planned, then you can likely attract money from private money lenders who want to get a return on their money and they see lending to you as a low risk way of earning a better return than in the other passive investing options they have. 

In this space it's all about building a portfolio, my 1 house clients are at the highest risk because they can only rely on that 1 property, they don't have others to help alleviate the burden.

Landlords can easily do it without a mortgage but they are taking a huge risk.

As mentioned above get involved locally. 

These days most PMs don’t involve their clients in Tennant selection.They’ll get photos taken.