I don't, nor intend to, invest in tax liens, but the Vesta Holdings part interests me and it's a concept I haven't been able to grasp.

Bypassing two elements.The actual job is the same.In Mexico, Honduras, Thailand, there's no concept of "permitted work", they are done by the same people when it is about fixing the house, there's nothing magical about it.So yes please use permitted work, if you want to do permitted work.

Focusing purely on the numbers.Opportunity Cost of Renting: No AppreciationLet’s start by understanding the concept of appreciation in the context of real estate.

The concept here is to get to the point where your tenants pay for your housing expenses, which should give you some excess income to save and invest.These initial steps could get you to a point where you have a few doors and maybe even have your tenants covering your own housing expenses.Think carefully about selling, it seems counter-productive if you want to be an investor.

I dont ever go into the Tulles of deal structures as I feel most of the rental real estate is so vanilla that if the person cant grasp the concepts just reading a little on BP I am not going to help them.If they ask about something I might have specific unique knowledge of Like Timber and Timber rights and Timber deeds I might go off on those. 

The concept of purchasing a multi-family property, utilizing one unit for STR, and eventually transitioning the entire property into an STR setup after a year is quite appealing.My journey began with properties I owned, where I dove into the STR industry.

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The concept, though is interesting.

So $1.428mEdward Jones Financial Advisor, and Edward Jones is the guarantor of the lease (not a franchise owner[1]): 6% cap is appropriate based on comps, paying $100k/yr. $1.67m.You might say "that's bs, the offices are identical!"

The one-off turned into many one-offs and most important thing I learned from that was how utterly clueless those guys were in just about everything, which shattered my false concept that all investors have some secret-sauce, that i needed that illusive treasure map, no, these were clueless idgets they just simply were fearless to try.