And of course, some assets will age into value-add territory, but the focus is owning core assets. totally agree about what drives the volatility, my only point was that taking the macro view that REITs are more volatile ignores the truth of the matter that most of that is systematic risk and that they still exists for non reit players, but we don't see them in as sharp of contrast every day. 

Each of the 3-4 major players in the Property Management Software space can do everything needed in your business (and each will have particular strengths and weaknesses), but if you use it incorrectly you'll not love the results.Go get it, dude!

Not many institutional investors diluting the rental market (Blackstone, Starwood, other big players etc.)I'm looking for a Huntsville expert to tell me why I'm wrong.

Not many are building new in this climate and the cash equity players want to large of a share to inject capital.The other thing is there are so many fractured projects you can buy from banks and re-purpose for a fraction of replacement costs.Material costs are stable but labor is cheap right now for construction.In my area usually they just set up an LLC for the project with a JV equity agreement.

Find the big players in Tulsa on BP.Add the keywords "Tulsa" and/or "Oklahoma" to the BP keyword alerts.

Once the world opens up again I will definitely attend some court house steps auction to get the feel of how it works and to meet the players.

If you’re serious about real estate you need todevelop all your skills on the spectrum, then you’re a 5 tool player (to use a baseball analogy).I’m not much older than you so I know a bit what you’re going through, feel free to PM me to chat.

@Samuel Jolicoeur becoming an agent or wholesaler so that you can become a real estate investor is a bit like becoming an NFL quarterback so that you can become an NBA basketball player.

Once you have all the players on your team, you can start investing knowing that if you were to walk away, you have legal support, property managers, funds, and everything else with a system in place to support your absence.

Gulley,I was responding to a post about Medical Centers by Joe Fairless,since many medical centers do sale lease backs of their buildings to large publicly traded REIT's, Medical Properties Trust being the big player in the industry.So that would leave an investor with 200K looking at much smaller (non-medical center) type properties in the medical world to invest in.As for this - "Where did this stuff come from?