You need to do renovations, improve the property, and drive up rents.

There are three safe harbors that businesses may use to meet the test.Half of the amount the business spent on services were for services performed in a QOZ.Necessary business functions and necessary tangible property was located in a QOZ.Half of the hours of service received by the business were performed in a QOZ.A business does not need to meet all three safe harbors to qualify.

Quote from @Mark Pedroza: Quote from @Sergey Tkachev: Quote from @Mark Pedroza: A warm welcome @Shannon Bloomfield@Sergey Tkachev holds a monthly meetup in W Sacramento the third Thursday of every month.It may be a drive for you from where your located but maybe I'll see you there ....Warm regards.... 

Its a 3 hour drive for you and then you have to hire a PM to manage!

Does anyone have a set of questions or things they think through or scripts or anything that helps them approach, talk to, and close on deals with homeowners when they approach them directly (whether through mass marketing, driving for dollars, or otherwise)?

My tenant is complaining that it's driving unnecessary attention from the neighborhood to his home and wants us to move it.

Furnace filters, though, are important for keeping things safe and running well, so I would say you could take care of those but leave fridge filters to the tenant.

I highly recommend you travel to the market yourself and spend a couple days driving around, looking at various properties, if you are going to be buying anywhere.  

In reference to the recent bubble burst as an anomaly and not the rule, you can still safely assume that real estate prices will continue to climb over time even though more modestly than in the past.

The thing is I've been learning about real estate for almost 2 years and still haven't bought my first property and it's driving me insane .