Check that your marketing is casting a wide net, the information is accurate, pictures are well-lit and at good angles, etc.3.

If you're choosing between such a wide variety of available investments, the most important criteria is choose the type of investment that suits your business goals.

Today, higher interest rates then what they were, conditioning people to feel they are high (yes, my words are exactly accurate, check the data, rates are NOT high today, it's a perception) swing wide a GREAT opportunity for buying on seller financing, and that's a form of private financing is it not?

We usually try to stick to 2 weeks out because it can easily creep into being an STR if you open it wide up and that's not the goal if you have MTR as your primary strategy.

I'm filing a complaint with the NC Real Estate Commission, but I'm also spreading the word as far and wide as possible, to prevent other unsuspecting landlords from falling pray to her unethical, unprofessional business practices.

I could see how that kind of indoctrination could limit one's thinking.To clarify, when you say, "so is being a Real Estate Professional," I assume you are referring to the IRS recognition of qualifying real estate professional, rather than to the the public's widely understood meaning of the phrase, correct?  

@Kristi Kandel I don’t know a lot about roads or to what level you would have to build it to just make it a driveway but I just used ledge pack gravel in an 8 car parking lot and driveway that all in would have been at least 120’ long and in about 60’ two car widths wide and with delivery, cost of the gravel, and cost for the bobcat to spread the materials and pack them down it was all in about $1000.

I know a local mentor who has a wide range of RE experience, but with mixed results on her level of success.  

I do diversify my ira in the market, but I'm much more comfortable leveraged up into a wide variety of units so I can predict the averages better.If you don't leverage up and have 1 property paid out right, not only are you sacrificing a much greater return, but you also have all your eggs in one basket.

Look far and wide, none exist that will do a rooming house that I've found