Once you keep this RE Inv rolling, we can make things more robust.  

of course this is where a developer comes to play .. and since I am a small time one.I can tell you that in markets that are robust.. land is a premium.. if it has to be subdivided and infrastructure built there is a small segment that can do those and have the means to get financing very tough..  

:The Oakland City Council is scheduled Tuesday to decide on a resolution proposed by Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney that would establish a city loan program to help “distressed low-income homeowners” evict their tenants when the landlord or relative wants to occupy the property.Under this proposal, co-sponsored by Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, the city would set aside $300,000 “to make available no-interest loans” to “cash-strapped” landlords to help them pay city-required relocation payments to tenants they are evicting.http://www.oaklandpost.org/2018/07/06/councilmembe...Oakland has quite a robust second mortgage business.

Or, I look at the overall robust economy, the relatively strong housing market, and wonder if I'm entering at a bad time - but then realize that when/if things crash, that'll be another round of changes that provides for opportunity.Opportunity is born from change, and at 42, I'm old enough to know that the secret to doing something is to just get started, and to keep chipping away at it.Anyway, my short term goal, once I have finished doing enough research and working on getting the overall engine in place, is to get a couple deals under my belt, and get an idea of what pieces of my process needs refinement in order to scale up a bit.

I dont know my daughter is an agent there.. and my wife has been going on showings with her.. (  9 1/2 months prego)... and my wife has 30 years at this game.. and from her perspective its still quite robust.. we put an offer in on a rehabber this week and there were 23 other offers seller was going to take the best 7 and counter those tomorrow..

I have done several projects in that past where I take a structured list of addresses and analyze them based on the robust data there.

There wasn't a need to have robust documents, just what was needed for a note and deed of trust to secure the investment.Selling to an owner occupant, I would definitely let the MLO take care of everything.

This is what I usually recommend for folks starting out.Then once you get a few units under your belt and looking to expand, I would suggest going with a more robust piece of software like Appfolio or Buildium. 

Prior to that I was forcing the square peg of property management through the round hole of Quickbooks - adequate but definitely not ideal.RM is pretty robust so if starting from scratch the learning curve could be pretty intense.

depends on the market many markets are so robust.. sellers just list and sell no problempersonally I just look at it like anything else I buy there MUST be significant equity other wise why buy it. to buy it for retail .. at least for me.. leaves you no exit if the loan is called..