Also, I'm stuck with out-of-state investing which brings a whole series of risks with minimized financial upside (in my opinion) 

Utilities.Tenant agrees to pay for all utilities connected to the property such as sewer, cable, television, telephone, water, steam, gas, waste, trash, or electricity.

Please note that this is for a Texas Series LLC.1.

I'm hosting a series on interviews on IG Live starting this Tuesday.

I have 21 units and have recently formed a Series LLC for all 21 units.

This requires a series of phone calls where someone along the way always shuts it down. 

I work as an acquisitions associate with BPG Holdings, a local real estate investment fund in Alexandria, and also work as a realtor for our fund's brokerage team, assisting clients with investment properties in the D.C. metro area.I've recently created a series of reports focused on the city of Alexandria and its sub-market development prospects, which I believe alongside other macro trends will make the city an amazing buy-and-hold investment for real estate investors.

Real Estate values, nationally, have never decreased over any 10 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUSFocus on optimizing active income first.

You might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes

@Tramaine Robinson I can’t pinpoint a moment in time where it “clicked,” but instead I’ve found a series of small victories that yielded improvements.My first profit gave me confidence.