I learned an incredible amount by reading about 700 threads on the Ontario Landlord Association landlord help forum, and a great deal about investing in general from BP's blog and podcasts.As an engineer it is natural to me to put together spreadsheets, analyze risk, pore over information and weigh the pros and cons of all possible scenarios ahead of me.

In Chicago security deposit interest is part of the Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance and changes annually.Most of our clients have chosen to issue a credit letter annually at the time of lease renewal applying the reduction to the rent due.  

Thanks for everyone's advise and expertise : )Hey Angel, I personally am not a fan of turnkey providers, because they have chosen everything including the management company, or they are the management company and its harder to know if the best workmanship and care will be put into the investment.

This is a waiting game sometimes....If this continues then you have to consider whether you have chosen a bad neighborhood and get out....

She can tell you more, but essentially it's a standard lease with a few important tweaks, namely: 1. addressing how to handle shared costs and shared-space damage; and 2. protecting you, the landlord, from the liability of having chosen these rent-by-the-room tenants.

However, she has chosen to step into the support role by ensuring all things around the house and dealing with the kids is taken care of so that I can focus on real estate.

I've chosen to continue to purchase out of state because I've also found that my local area (previously the Netherlands, now Washington D.C) hasn't been a great market for buy and hold properties.  

Not to say that it's access to "bad deals" but it's access to deals they haven't chosen to execute on themselves. 

do a search on meetup.COM for real estate within your chosen distance. bigger pockets when you go to your dashboard on a Pc (not on a mobile device) has the local events on the bottom right.

Do you have your attorney chosen yet?