Find a partner, find co-workers/friends/relatives you wouldn’t mind living with, find a property you can buy for less than your current rent.

I anticipate serious cap ex expenditures coming his way. 

If you're dealing with them for agency loans (ex.

I have a friend who is a banker locally, he's seen business bank numbers for 40 years...he know what makes a strong business client and when it is a weak business with some good years.

By February, the median home value dropped 20 percent, bringing the price down to $560,000.TKL found there are now nearly 8,000 homes listed for sale in the Washington, DC metro area, and almost half of them have been put on the market in the last 30 days.The tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service is preparing to fire thousands of workers next week"***************************************************************************Comment: Save The IRS  - said no one, everIn the last year of our marriage my ex wife spent $150,000 on clothes.

@Joe MichaelsI believe the new cap ex starts a 27.5 year clock at the time of repairs.

Understand the 50% expense rule especially as it relates to cap ex.

Purchase price: $4,100,000 Cash invested: $2,000,000 79 unit value add apartment complex with roughly 800k in cap ex completed What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Ex - Cin is 4 hours away from Cle.

(ex. you like 20 properties, would you pay $150 x 20 properties before the day of the auction?)