It's hard to compare to 6+ months ago to now where interest rates are at, but it doesn't mean that RE investing doesn't offer the same fundamental benefits it did in the past. 

If the fundamental basis of investing is strictly cash flow, you'll want to make sure your net income per month is actually double your mortgage.

I've asked this question many times to BP community members I've connected with and have yet to receive a sound response but I will ask you the same question: Why do you feel its necessary to operate with a more convoluted web of entities than a real estate company that owned and managed a portfolio that exceeded $1B?

Now that I am getting more comfortable with the basics of this, I may park my money in a fund, but rest assured that I will give up the return profile and liquidity rights before I give up on the fundamentals of being first position in all notes, my preference for an unlevered, or lightly levered, fund, and requirement for conservative underwriting in concentrated Geographies. 

I have always appreciated meetups that have not only the fundamentals but keep investors in the loop on what is going on and how investments might be affected.Maybe have a special guest or other investors to speak or share experiences, ideas et. 

However, I can teach you the business fundamentals, and you could potentially help me with lead generation.

thank you for great suggestions, Jonathan.are there any web solutions or systems out there to collect rental payments?

Not saying that this is the case but that is the darkside of the Web 2.0 world we live in today.

Look into the homes history on your county's web site(s). 

The second branch of the site will be a platform to create a personal web page that will hold all of the agent's social media link (kind of like linktree).