We have trouble getting vendors and staff to go to certain parts of town, that's a bigger issue than if the office is willing to deal with the paperwork of section 8. 

I was able to ask my long list of Bigger Pockets crafted interview questions and he answered them all to satisfaction without hesitation or objection.

ThThis Might be good way to dip toe in the pond and help convince wife to do bigger projects esp with not much extra money to work with.Thanks again for any input.

I negotiated the initial deal, brought it to a Bigger Pockets investor and then once we closed on it, I did all the project management and coordinated with the contractors as much as possible enabling partner to travel and be as remotely as needed.

I negotiated the initial deal, brought it to a Bigger Pockets investor and then once we closed on it, I did all the project management and coordinated with the contractors as much as possible enabling partner to travel and be as remotely as needed.

@Chad SwansonAssess out your resources, that will dictate the path.

so most people will have to be as leveraged as possible to scale (at the beginning). as in, keep your LTV high and focus on buying 'as much' ($$) RE as possible. this is if you're doing a pretty run of the mill REI strategy like buy and hold. i came across an interesting guideline once: if you could sell today and net 7x+ your annual true net cashflow, you should cash-out/refi, or sell/1031. think of it this way: if your portfolio in a year is worth 1m market value, and you owe 600k, and have a lender that will do a portfolio loan at 80% ltv, you could cashout refi and get 200k to play with (minus closing costs). when you compare the now-lower cashflow from the existing portfolio (higher LTV & maybe different rate), to what you can do with 200k cash, THAT'S where it gets fun. maybe you lose 1k/mo in cashflow on the original portfolio (literally just made up a number, idk), but you can gain 2500/mo in cashflow with that 200k.. then doing the cashout/refi earned you a net increase in your monthly profit of 1500/mo, plus you're getting debt paydown and appreciation on "more" real estate, probably getting bigger tax benefits, etc.

I'd love to be a resource for you. 

We think he must have taken  our money and moved on to a bigger project and placed our items in the new project.  

You would also have to be very strict about who you rent to, and make sure that they have sufficient income or resources to pay the rent, so you don't get stuck with a bad tenant situation.