It was meant that if you were a non-local investor what information would help you to better decide to move into a sector / city and what would cause you not to.

We decided that we were best served to create our own tenants in the commercial sector rather than going for single family homes or small multi-family units.

@Kris BensonUpcoming events for Q4 include: SIOR World Conferences - October 11-13 in Denver, CO:SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors) hosts a bi-annual conference that connects top brokers, agents and professionals in commercial real estate for three days of relationship-building, educational workshops (redeemable for real estate continuing education credit in some states), and social opportunities.CORENet Global Summit - October 14-17 in Boston, MA: CORENet Global Summit attracts over 2,000 attendees from the corporate real estate sector and features over 200 speakers and 100 breakout educational sessions, providing ample opportunities to network and expand your industry knowledge.NAIOP CRE.Converge - October 15-17 in Washington, DC: Organized by NAIOP (National Association for Industrial and Office Parks), CRE.Converge is attended by over 1,500 commercial real estate professionals and provides engaging programming from industry leaders.Private Equity Real Estate Forum - October 23 in Napa Valley, CA: The Private Equity Real Estate Forum will host workshops covering a range of topics, including the rise of commercial real estate debt and the effect of ‘Trumponomics’ on commercial real estate investment.NAR Realtors Conference & ExpoNAR - November 2-5 in Boston, MA: (National Association of Realtors) is the largest trade organization in the U.S., boasting a membership of over 1.3 million professionals involved in commercial and residential real estate.

I came into real estate and property management with a masters degree, after careers in the military, public sector, and higher education.

which sector of Miami?

A colleague of mine is interested in these for his private sector foreclosure prevention business... since this is clearly a better option than the ridiculous 90-day moratorium, I thought I'd help him out, so...Where do I get a list of NOD's (preferrably in So-Cal counties- Orange, SD, LA, Riverside, San Bernadino) with phone #'s?

Bernanke urged using more taxpayer funds for new efforts to prevent home foreclosures, saying the private sector is incapable of coping with the crisis on its own.

Call me a skeptic but I don't believe there is a free lunch with anything and this commercial sector must have some caveat that allows it to stay more profitable than residential.

The unit is 1 block from a large government housing sector if that tells you anything.Is it feasible to ask the current management company for a report of completed/requested repairs from the tenants? 

On the one hand the buy to let sector seems to have a lot of repossessions coming as the tax law bites but that could create opportunity too.