One that I just read that I recommend is "Empire" by Mitchell Pacelle.

@Ben LengerAs someone who has a few "older" (Second Empire, Victorian, Edwardian) properties, I assure you there are more than the "little things" hiding behind those walls.The good news is the original house is too old for asbestos to be a big concern ... unless there were renovations in the 1920s - 1940s.  

Examples would be Palmdale/Lancaster, Bakersfield, Inland Empire etc.

for me, it isn't about building an empire (yet).

An illustration of the effect of the long term lease that I took a look at in one of my real estate classes is the Empire State building.

While the actual remote/meter device can be as small as described, you need to first have a manifold down stream from the utilities meter on the building and separate water feeds running to each unit.Most of the time in smaller residential (1-4) multies or converted older buildings (we have lots of old Second Empire, Victorian, Edwardian, etc homes here than have been turned into 5-8 unit apartment buildings), the water lines to each unit are not isolated.

I told a few people my plan to invest; then I was off to start an empire.

Get an additional quote from Terry Conrad at Empire, Inc. 

I currently work for a multifamily property management company in Bel Air and hope to one day build an investment empire as do all of you!

That’s why it’s so cheap… that’s why we can afford such a nice apartment in such a nice area (similar units in the building rent for $1600/mo)… but it also means we can’t RRefinance and RRepeat 🫤 There goes my dream of a 100-unit BRRRR empire 🤦‍♂️ So… we have a “bird in the hand” … an accepted offer on a place we would love to live… but it doesn’t seem like a great investment property, and it doesn’t seem to lead toward my real estate BRRRR career goals.So… should we back out of this co-op deal and wait for another deal to pop up in Gulfport instead??