According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), average hourly wages for residential construction workers rose 10.8% between August 2023 and August 2024, the largest YoY jump since the BLS started tracking the data.

I don't know if any of you have ever played that game from the "Rich Dad" author, Kiyosaki is it?

@Ryan CousinsI know this post is old - but were you ever able to find a place??

Under no circumstances should the tenant ever burn scrap lumber in a fireplace.

Zelle is free to transfer money, and is owned by 7 of the largest US banks. 

Worst closing, and escrow agents, ever!

In fact, with ever increasing property taxes, expect your payment to increase. 

A huge number of properties we have looked at would have issues on this front.It can lead to an opportunity to improve the value of a property if you can buy it with an illegal area, get that area legalised and then sell on with a higher value that the bank would lend against, but it's not clear cut and it seems though that there are almost two levels of 'legalisation' - we were able to register all of the annex on the plans and could fully incorporate a portion of it but there is another portion that is too close to the back boundary wall that should only be used for things like storage and not ever for habitation. 2) During the purchase process be careful, amongst other issues with this property we had the situation where the seller's lawyer was not actually a lawyer (having been struck off).

Or a PM bizz  etc etc all of these are RE based but you dont need to own any RE per se . when you have investors that are not in the bizz IE not brokers lenders GC's etc etc they to me are true investors and depending on their background and funding ability scaling can be a pipe dream or one can methodically do it in what ever rental props they want to buy..

Plus if you are in MA, you will be close enough that if you ever have any issues it's a short drive to the property.