First, almost all properties are either placed with a broker for sale or directly listed on the major property sale websites.

You can still find some events on RHAWA website and meetup.com but it's a lot smaller number.As for getting started, remember it's possible to be successful with many different strategies.

I only ask because you said you are new to this.The S8 rents you see on the HUD website is gross eligibility.

Nothing on accounting or # of shares.Today I looked on the website and the "Get started" button takes you to a "Coming Soon!

Not only is every order on one website but you get emails on which orders arrive what day and an email when they arrive.

Quote from @Jonathan Soto: great write up. thank you for taking your time and going in to detail. i have been looking into a business for myself but havent seen much in biz bysell that make sense. just need to keep searching Try looking into Crexi and Loopnet too, I find all different kinds of small businesses for sale on those websites compared to Bizbuysell.

We both also have finance degrees and are savvy with finances and from an income perspective we are inline with each otherSimilar to what JD stated - We have a living trust where everything eventually goes to the kids and if something were to ever happen we would sit down like adults and resolve it without being vindictive. 

@Shuvrajit Mukherjee - You have to be able to scrape that data from some where pretty easy...a lot of that property specific info is public record.There is a website called chicago cityscape...I am decent friends with the founder....it is sourcing a ton of data that might help. 

U might want to write out their website so folks can check it out

You should get plenty of discussions over the years.If you search a real estate investing website, you'll find most opinions are biased towards real estate.