I want to be able to check up on my investment and do routine property inspections.

Tenants sometime make the assumption that the person that owns the real estate is rich, make sure they understand you are just a regular person who will have to budget for expenses.

I see posts on a regular basis about building a team.

Mike, what's the pricing look like for regular O&E reports and full property reports?  

My reply to this is that I will give you my regular fair price on the first 6 , and I will discount the last one .

The large commercial projects in the pipeline are huge and large new projects being announced regularly so we should see this get back to normal or better in 12 - 24 months.I don't monitor the outlying counties as much, but they still look depressed.  

Allow for the fact that property taxes and insurance rarely decline, and can sometimes spike suddenly.The net gain, once taxes on rental income are factored in, should be at least 8%, he says.Landlords also routinely get emergency calls from tenants about urgent repairs, so it is often best to live or work in the area to get to the property quickly, if necessary.

I have a condo that's 945 sq ft  2 br 1.5 ba rent will be $700 if I did a regular lease--should rent be increased due to the rent to own offering and if so by how much?

I'm close to a point where I can start investing more seriously, but definitely feel like I'm in the "don't know what I don't know" phase of learning.Is there a Boise/Meridian area real estate investors group that meets regularly? 

My goal is to cash flow enough through rental properties to be able to quit my regular job.