Please also feel free to bring an investment, personal financial dilemma, or strategy question, and I am happy to discuss it with you... for entertainment purposes only.

I heard that they will do PM for free!

Feel free to reach out I enjoy helping and talking REI!

Are there any markets you have selected yet? 

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

A REIT fund would not offer you tax free returns.   

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An LLC is not free.

Depending on how you set it up, it won't reduce your earned income, but there may be benefits to making the rent itself tax-free for many years or at least reduced (assuming you never recapture depreciation).

Using this tax free bucket, you can borrow against it at very low rates to pay off your student loans.