If I were selling a barn or an old church in the country and the buyer's intention was to turn that into a residence and live there, residential laws apply.These Acts are the news of the day for investors, they have become central to gurus or mentor/coaches as a tool to be used in attracting attention, some with good intentions to promote their being seen as having expertise in their niche or their marketing agenda.

Any RE investor model that doesn't require money is suspect and so are the players/ peddlers.

I've seen some things on HML's and just wondered what other options are out there or what someone with more expertise would do in this situation.

There are several things you can bring to an investment (money, time and effort, expertise, ability to get financing, connections, etc.).

If you are going to buy from a turnkey company then buy from one who is actually from Memphis and do your homework on the pricing models as many are different.

As of Jan 2014 Dodd Frank supercedes the state by state implementation of the Safe Act model legislation.There's no "violating" if you do xyz, you'd just be not in compliance and run some risks.

However, we are completely satisfied and extremely happy with this decision; their business model and software is most excellent!

The scoring model weighs more of "what have you done lately?"

Investors in turnkey are paying for the that companies expertise in that area.

It's a B/B- prop in a C but improving area that is starting to attract some hipster/artist types.I just rented a nice 1:1 on the same block that was markedly smaller but charming, with a good floor plan, for $495 - which was basically .90/sf plus $50/mo utilities.If I put that same model on the new duplex, which is clean plain jane vs charming, I get a crazy number... $900, which is more than a 3/2 in this area.