Doing it yourself is a huge pain.

Student housing around Temple University can potentially offer higher caps but you have to be selective block by block given the neighborhoods surrounding the school.

While I may not be able to buy up an entire block at this point, I am on the ground serving the city.

I followed BPers who I find investment wisdom in their posts. These are people who keep me posted on the latest events and trends in their areas of real estate investment. However, I have doubts if others have genuine...

The building I am looking to acquire is a 6500 sq ft block construction shingle roof building built in the 1980s, with a total of 42 garage doors (21  10x30 units with doors on either side so they can be subdivided into 2 units).

Bed bugs are a pain.

If you can make up the shortage you can avoid the pain of a short sale.  

He pushed it a good foot so that the water lines underneath the home have busted and a couple of the cinder blocks it stands on are askew making it unsafe for them to stay there.They have paid their rent for this month but do not have extra money for a hotel.

It may take 3 years to make your money back but with a 10 year lease, it's much less painful then apartments, IMO.

I live and invest in Philadelphia Pa. in zip codes 19134, 19125, 19137.My second issue is getting a mortgage prior to settlement when I put in an all cash offer.