I know it sounds strange but, knowing what I know now, I would work with a big apartment or hotel buyer in your city, look for a good deal for him or her and then as your compensation, you get paid equity in the deal.

And no hotels. 

Any tips or advice for someone getting started would be much appreciated, but I ultimately just wanted to start posting in this Cleveland specific forum.

In our office, we try to get our homes to a "hotel clean" or "hospital clean" condition.

I have a line on a few properties owned by an out of state absentee owner and I'm trying to find the best method to contact them the numbers I've skipped have not been valid thus far and I need a different tactic so I...

A few tips I've heard repeatedly are:Have the students sign 1-year leases, no matter if they intend to be there over the Summer or not.Parents must co-sign on all leases.Learn the housing cycle for the school(s) you're targeting.

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@Rebecca Knox, @Marcus Auerbach, @Matt Maurice Thanks for the tips. 

This can vary greatly depending on the type of commercial real estate (industrial is vastly different from a hotel, for example).

Any tips would be awesome!