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Personally, I would take a trip down there as well to see the property and interview some of the management companies in the area :)

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I even went through a few rounds of interviews to be a Financial Planner before I pulled out of the process.However you decide to build a career as a Financial Planner, you need to be sure you would personally make the same investments as what you are telling clients.

Just do yourself a favor and interview several agents or companies local on the ground there, ask for several references and start slow.

I am flipping and doing buy and holding now.My Mom is interested in private funding for a few flips... we explored self Directed IRA, so far I have interviewed ENTRUST.

Fortunate that we didn't act on those urges as we would have gone from the pan to the fire.It is a question of recognizing what an opportunity market looks like and then acting.

I have made one trip per day to Menards the last 10 days, so the flooring guy recognized me.