Honestly, it seems like you’ve got more skin in the game than I do since I’m just getting started as a bird dog, but I really admire your approach.I think your focus on tax-efficient strategies and building a reliable team is spot on.

Wind is one of the subtle items that Insurance companies are starting to exclude. 

@Jahniya Butlercan you start with a house hack instead? 

They will continuously charge you $50 increments in advance for services that you have not started using throughout the month.

New landlord here and I've been forced to start my first eviction.

We don't recommend "newbies" start out with Class D properties.

Any city that I'm looking to invest in I always start by looking at population growth.

@Omar Fernandez - you can start by reaching out to some attorneys, NYC is an attorney city so you'll have to get an attorney involved (who usually orders the title search). 

It's pretty easy to see that real estate proces peaked around 2007-2008 and then crashed during the Great Recession.Around 2011-2012 prices started to recover and got back to their pre-Crash highs around 2015-2016, but really 2018-2019 when adjusted.So, why are newbies reading books written BEFORE 2019 and thinking that you can still successfully invest using the EXACT advice in these relatively "old" books?

I started listening to the BiggerPockets podcast in late 2023 and have since heard every episode.