When even our lowest income citizens have cell phones and big screen tv's (they do), you know we have a government spending bubble of unimaginable proportions. 4.

The disadvantage of a shortsale is that your profit is in direct proportion to what you can negotiate with the bank and shortsales take a LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT to negotiate.

I personally invest out of state since the properties are cheaper and rents are proportionally higher than most (if not every) property locally. 

I was going to use a proportional ratio based on county assessment to figure out the value of the building. 

My thought was similar - if we did have to compact, it wouldn't be all that disruptive.

Real estate investors are paid in proportion to the size of the problem they solve. 

I should have the benefit of getting accurate expense and income data for any real property to validate cap rate and other information.Property management costs are similar to what they are for a SFH (10%/mo + placement fee) until you get to a certain number of units where it then makes sense to hire an employee.Insurance costs will be proportionally more than a SFH/4plex in the area would. e.g.

If I could start over again, I would recommend finding a property manager who is a prolific investor as well and pester them until they gave me a job.I would definitely get my real estate license and I would practice property management.I would then focus my week with these proportions:50% Making an income as a property manager25% Meeting with power partners (people you want to partner with, investors, property owners, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, contractors, etc) with the goal to find an investor who wants to put up the cash to participate in real estate deals with you.25% Searching for, analyzing deals, and purchasing deals (you can share these deals with your power partners).After a while, you can quit your property management job and then focus on being an investor.

Fees will be made proportional to the square footage of the ADU.

Some will have dips of course but not as bad as some intown Atlanta areas.I have lived in GA all of my life but I am more of a suburbanite  so do not like to be in these ultra compact areas so my views might not be the norm.