I am pretty old fashioned in my views of the real estate market, consider it very safe (which it is much more in Europe than it is here) and generally the best investment for the long term.

They will know the areas specific laws concerns and have them fashioned for the common problems of your given area these are based off years of local landlords and their legal regulational problems and how the courts wanted it structured. they have the tears of landlords used in them!

He has a few realtors and other folks he leans on in a similar fashion.

I've talked to locals by asking them on Angie's, next door and good ol fashioned Google.

A debt fund would simply loan money to your flipping business and your flipping business would pay interest to your debt fund, which in turn would pay interest to its investors.An equity fund would actually acquire title to the properties and the profits therefrom would be split in some fashion (there are thousands of ways to split the pie--you have to choose an arrangement that'll be compelling enough to attract investors).This is a 30,000-foot level overview, your attorney would have to help you with the details, and there are many, many details to consider that are way beyond the scope of a forum post written by a non-attorney

I usually invest in a contrarian fashion, so obviously not everyone's cup of tea.

It’s fashionable for some laws to be enforced more of less at various times than others, I’m sure everyone tries as hard as they can to be lawful.Just because a law is not enforced doesn’t mean it isn’t there.  

Glad to have some reassurance as I'm looking to scale up in a similar fashion in the Cleve! 

My position is if you have money and can stroke a check and want to have a big over view and then decide go for it.if you have to put it on credit cards that in my mind means your not properly capitalized to do real estate in any fashion.

Then, just file a good old fashioned eviction.