It is the main historical reason, by the way, that ceilings are white in Europe and the USA -- they needed to be painted frequently to cover up the soot that would tend to accumulate on them, and originally kalsomine only came in white.

I have accumulated a database by state of a lot of the legal issues.

There are some old men in theae areas that have accumulated 20 properties or so over their time and most are paid for and will kill an outperform the average investor with that invest in only so called a,b areas. 

Carolyn Morales - many investors lien to keep their properties financed to maintain the tax advantage, especially if still employed and earning high income, and leveraging that equity to accumulate more real estate while rates are still low.

You got about a good 7 to 10 years to accumulate as much wealth in Florida real estate as you can, so while the door is open to the vault, grab as much as you can, while you can!

This makes for great cash flow and allows me to accumulate capital for other investments, since I am not making principal payments, but on the other hand I am not building equity other than what has accrued through appreciation.

His simple approach rekindled my interest in buy and hold real estate as a vehicle for wealth accumulation.

The French real estate market is ripe, especially with only 2% interest rates, however we're focusing on the Texas market for now until we can accumulate enough capital to make some deals here.With the dollar/euro exchange rate improving (for those with USD,) it's an excellent time to explore European real estate, but some disadvantages include really high transaction costs (for example, a "Notaire" is required for all property sales and that typically costs 8% of the sales price.

If you leave earnings to accumulate in a C Corp thinking you're getting around the double taxation, you'll eventually learn about the accumulated earnings tax...C Corp make sense under very limited fact patterns...e.g. foreign owners, owners that want heavy fringe benefits, silicon valley types that envision a 1202 stock sale exit strategy, etc. 

Cash flow is king and usually the safest strategy to accumulate properties.