@Alexander Wardell  First thing you should do is to familiarize yourself with MA landlord/tenant laws - which are biased WILDLY in favor of tenants.Next, learn about Fair Housing. 

Being an investor and being an agent involves wild swings in monthly income - make sure you're prepared.

The sad thing is the Baltimore City has advised landlords that they should expect to pay $40-$75 per inspection (wildly low). 

@Jacob FergusonMoving from San Diego to one of those locations is going to be wild.

If you care to join us for the wild ride, you're certainly welcome too.

And that whole road after the wild animal park turn off has been totally redone. 

They do not tend to like working with newer buyers needing tons of help buying smaller properties for a lower commission check.If you can be more descriptive such as your net worth and liquidity, annual income from job or business, total global cash flow, asset type, deal size, LTV with amount you are looking to put down, area, cap rate expected, fully stabilized or value add,etc.All of these things a good commercial broker will KEY in on to see if what you are wanting to do is readily available or you are looking for a needle in a haystack or wild goose chase type thing.If you are looking to find above market cap rates there are REIT's, pension funds, insurance companies that buy hundreds of millions a year in properties that I can call to purchase in 3 to 4 weeks close all cash.

I'm asking because from a few hours of googling around, it seems like the numbers across website are wildly different (I've seen from ~5% to 10% for the same exact zipcode), and I'm wondering which ones the veterans trust?

Hi Guys,We are considering selling a property and have some 1031 exchange questions with regards to IRS expectations.  We would be moving from multi-family property to much different areas and states.  However, there ...

I have got quotes from 2 different companies, they are wildly different in price, but I am still considering going with the more expensive one, simply because it seems like they are more professional and I worry that they will do a much better job than the cheap guy.What do you normally do in this situation?