We increased the rent slightly after the first 24 month lease and were able to recently increase the rent when the first tenant moved out.Lessons learned?

Keep learning and determine your long term goals.

Recently moved to "south of the river", and would love to meet up with people from whom I can learn from.

I've been here since the beginning, or real close to, and am happy to help you navigate and learn the site.As for where to invest, it depends on your goals, your tolerance for risk, and how much control you want.  

CT isn't cheap so if you plan on doing it there you are going to surprised at how poorly you do. maybe in the suburbs I'm not sure but as much as I know people call us from CT and everyone is rich and has lots of money and things are expensive out there. build to rent is a great model. we build 3 story walk up infill and keep it to the residential side. 3 units is the most units before it's commercial and you need engineering, etc. check comparable and things liek that. we came up with this design a year ago and we sold 10 if you want to talk further please DM me happy to connect. there are some great build to rent conferences. we went vertical not horizontal with it to save on build costs and design to fit on any infill lot. this fits on a 3500 square foot lot. most lots in our area are 30x120 or 30x150. in miami where I live now they are 50x100 or so. but any infill lot we can pretty much get this one on. there are some great build to rent conferences coming up too that if you like this topic I'd recommend attending I'm sure you'd learn a lot.  

As a beginner investor based in the Seattle metro area, I'm eager to learn from your experiences and share my journey as I get started in this field.My current strategy is to focus on live-and-flip for the first three deals (looking for my second deal) to gain hands-on experience while building equity and learning the ins and outs of renovation and the local market. 

I’m currently contacting a lawyer and will update what I learned here.

You can join a "hemorrhoids suffers group" for relief but you can't join a "SubTo Community" to learn SubTo" properly and legally.

Learned that lesson the hard way.

Right now, I’m focused on building a strong foundation in real estate by expanding my network and learning strategies for sustainable growth.