The 3rd thing that has reshaped my entire opinion of the tax advantages of real estate, is seeing my 88 grandfather holding five quite valuable illiquid properties, long story short it’s a mess, it’s causing family drama, he is in zero shape physically or mentally to manage them, the all have cap-ex needs, again these were amazing buy’s literally multiple properties he bought for under 50k that are now worth over a million but there is probably a time and a place for owning real estate, so I don’t really have a need to own more than maybe a few properties into retirement.

Account managers have literally no idea about day-to-day operations and glaze over specific questions asked to delay and confuse owners. 

Good examples to try to follow.From the above discussion, I now have some simple, beginner questions about taxes and bookkeeping.Example property:Rent: $2000PITI: $1200, CapEx: 5%, Maintenance 5%: Vacancy 8%: Prop Manag 8% ($520)Cash flow: $280In the bank, you keep the $280 along with the $360 from CapEx, Maint, Vacancy while the Prop Manag is paid to the PM.

You can usually find some events by doing a simple google search.

Hey Robin, thanks it's actually a creative finance deal with some value add opportunity, so I'm really looking forward to learning a lot from this Nice - sounds like a cool way to start Thank you, Robin, this is my first deal after literally being in tutorial hell(watching many videos trying to learn the strategy) so I'm really excited about this

Plus this is literally your agents job, an agent gets paid to help you with things like this, a co-host can be super valuable but is more focused on the post-purchase phase. 

Most of the time the categorization is simple enough and I can do myself. 

With the stock market literally about to do a huge correction pre election I think there will be quite a bit of money to be made on shorts.

I'd agree with John's simple take here.

The capital invested in this project is not as simple as the template BP gave me so I'll explain a little bit more here:This is a 1031 exchange build to suit.