When someone wants to send you a referral privately, they are probably sending you a friend that pays them a referral fee.

I wanted to work with someone who was going to pick up the phone when I called.From your first interaction with a broker/seller, show through your words and actions that you are honest and reliable.Lesson 4️⃣ - Buyers and sellers become business partners.I truly think one of the biggest oversights in due diligence is the seller themselves.

Building a real estate portfolio might be attractive, but if you're crunched for time, perhaps you could do private lending in a SDIRA or get into syndications.

That alone was the biggest improvement for my business practices and allowed me to take all of my bookkeeping in-house and eliminate the expense I was shelling out for a bookkeeper.

To look at it from the other side, as a private money lender in my local market I need someone to find me the deals.

Fro the biggest reason, as you said, you own the home for the Best, First years of its life. 

But now, consumers will get a check for $13 each and have little force lobbying for private property rights. 

one truism I think for rental real estate is returns and price points are very much risk adjusted highest returns lowest price points  biggest risk.. smaller cap or return and prime location least risk..

Now I'm banned for spamming and while I'd like to handle this privately I'm blocked from the messaging system. 

Our last deal we engaged a mortgage broker that also brought a Private Equity LP (Limited Partner) to the deal.