Stay away from the lower income areas, typically we see properties more distressed, more challenging situations with tenants and late payments etc, we manage around 400 units and from experience its worth spending a little more money to be in a better part of town with more qualified tenants.

Are you buying the property all cash and then refinancing to take your money out?

We would love to connect with other investors who have done creative financing, rolled equity over, done battle with loan limits that are so unrealistic, or even moved their money out of state?! 

Hey All,I signed on to IIP management after a horrendous experience with Greater Eastern management last year, but it feels as if I've moved to another money sucking/non-transparent property management company.

Spending money is not the same as having losses.

I have a few commercial and LTR but keen to get in to STR for some monthly returns but also as  a tax strategy. I’m in Sarasota but I like st Pete.  I was originally looking at Indian rocks beach but have extended my ...

I'm a newbie to real estate investing, so little words are very much appreciated :)Big picture if it helps: I'm exploring an all in one so I can plop extra savings into it until I'm ready to purchase additional properties and then can pull the money from the all in one for a downpayment elsewhere and then will continue to throw money into the all in one from my main job as I save for additional downpayments.

I’d like to put an offer in but will need to find a hard money or private money lender because all of my money is tied up in two other properties.

Run the numbers.  4 SFH will cost you more to purchase than 2 duplexes, but will also get you more money generally speaking. 

Agents need to find their own business to make money.