Especially ones that are based on a build for immediate sale type scenario in lieu of generating rent rolls and seeing returns based on various hold periods

Yes that is correct, the business roll over sounds interesting but seems to be complicated with reporting rules and expensive start up $ 5,000 along with monthly fee.

We should consider raising their rents at least $100 when their leases are up and bring the rent roll up to $4,800 a month

I now outsource that to others.If you buy a park with (nearly) all resident-owned homes, and then infill with your homes and RTO those to keep the ball rolling with tenants that exhibit pride of ownership, then you'll spend very little time on your park - I'd guess about 1 minute/week/pad (assuming you outsource your bookkeeping, GC, management, and maintenance).To your continued success,-jl-

If your investment is dependent on appreciation to be successful then you are just rolling the dice.

Hello, New to real estate investing in the Chicago land area (I live in Joliet). My primary goal is to learn for now. I'm interested in learning buy & hold and whole sale.thanks,Henry

Less competition for me :).In reality, this business isn't dead and even though the barrier to entry is low, the actual expertise, salesmanship, marketing capability and human networking ability needed to complete a deal is not low.This business is like a snowball, once it starts rolling it's damn near impossible to stop.

The trainer was talking about negative people always trying to keep you down, which is true, you need to surround yourself with good people, my motto is "it is hard to soar like an eagle if you hang out with a bunch of turkeys" also if you roll around with dogs you are gonna get some fleas.... there is a million sayings, you get the point.

Also, keep an extra box of materials, and/or a small roll of carpet.

I had a similar start to investing, keep the momentum rolling!