If your loan is one where the PMI drops off eventually that would tilt you towards keeping what you have, yet if it is an FHA loan or something that keeps the same PMI the whole time maybe not. 

Hi,

I am looking for some advice on how I might go about diversifying my assets, specifically around real estate. I feel that I am not diversified enough - and looking for opinions here.

Currently, my real est...

Cured deferred maintenance (overgrown landscaping, peeling paint, tilted mailboxes), cosmetic work including interior and exterior paint, rebuild of patio fencing, striping of parking lot.

Watch for cedar columns that shrink over time, leading to tilting floors, knob & tube wiring, decrepit plumbing, asbestos pipe insulation, horsehair plaster pulling away from the underlying walls and wet basements due to either leaky fieldstone foundations or a high water table.All those things can be dealt with, but they need a budget. 

Watch for cedar columns that shrink over time, leading to tilting floors, knob & tube wiring, decrepit plumbing, asbestos pipe insulation, horsehair plaster pulling away from the underlying walls and wet basements due to either leaky fieldstone foundations or a high water table."

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

It's vital as an industry for us to organize and talk about what the solutions are versus what the problems are or else while we're debating the latter, the politicians are making decisions on our behalf typically tilted towards the complaints of their constituents.

@Lyman DeAnn-Gaines II I blindly jumped into real estate full tilt without even thinking about being scared for a moment.

If you are going to go full tilt with rehabs big and small there are two key ways most investors will set it up, and its based on personal skill and preference I think.