WaMu was directly involved.

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

With online access to almost every jurisdictions property recordings, lenders today use software that automatically searches property transfers for transfers involving their loans.  

But I am involved more in multifamily and hotel resort investing now.  

There's many other options in real estate such as syndication and note investing depending on your level of involvement. 

We even had to do a lease back to them while the carport situation was being finalized.There is definitely some luck involved with every deal, but I think as investors we can create our own luck as well based on knowledge and experience.  

Most value adds involve work   Some require specialized knowledge.Here is a list of why adding ADUs in my CA market is typically a poor RE investment:1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.

Going this route is more involved and that makes it more costly too.

The easiest of all the thing I've been involved in.

Everything in the other states we're involved in has re-opened or is in the process of re-opening.