How hot is the rental market in that area?

You can find some good properties, especially on the west side in Indiana Heights.

So when you had these hot beds of real estate speculation and borrowers could walk with the only thing they lose is FICO score and in many cases they put nothing down.. well they just walked.. and it became like chasing a falling knife it just got bad and kept getting worse.on the investor side.. you had thousands of investors in short term notes that could not get refinanced.. and probably in your line of work syndicators and other institutional investors who were stuck and could not refi and the lenders chose to foreclose.. especially if lets say Rialto bought your little bank that went under.. they were brutal on chasing he security .

Values are falling on much of the west side of Cincinnati.

I reckon 3-5 years is too short a time frame to GUARANTEE continued appreciation that gets you cash flow AND a profit on sale, after taking all expenses into account - if you're paying market value, in an already hot market.

He doesn't invest in stock and 401k afaik.Anyway i think different people have different cup of tea in terms of investment vehicle. it's good to know their stories from both side and determine which one you choose.

I live on the other side of the country in Baltimore and have found that there are hardly any affordable multis for me to house hack that are not in rough areas of the city.

Hi,I'm looking at getting into REI in the US from Australia.Is it worth have a CPA manage the tax sides of the LLC's that I will be setting up for my properties?

@Aaron PetersonI moved your thread to the landlords forum.Snow removal ... it will be here before you know it ... .I've already put our RFQ as we were not happy with our service in one city last winter.In our experience, when it comes to landscaping/lawncare and snow removal, anytime you cannot define where one tenant's domain ends and another begins, the obligation falls to the landlord.If you have a side-by-side duplex or a row of townhouses where each tenant has their own drive and patch of green, you can hand-off snow removal and lawn care to the tenant ... though you are just as often better served to take care of it yourself and bake it into the rent.Anytime you have stacked units or a block (such as a small purposely built quadruplex), the parking and green space are common areas (just like stairwells in the interior) and fall to the landlord.

Later I rented out the other side of the duplex to a family for 1650, the funny thing was that I was shy to tell them I'm the owner, I just told them that I work for a property management company.