But here is the thing when I reached for my phone to invest I couldn’t, because it's not as easy as buying stocks with a single click of a button in a specific stock exchange app, let alone searching for the right deal if you have time and if you don’t you gotta leverage it to someone who Is going to find the deal for you, after that, you will need to apply for a loan (DSCLR LOAN which I am going to use) because if you are like me you're going to use the bank's money, not yours, after that, you will need to search for tenants or your property will suck money from your pockets and it won't be an investment anymore, and this applies btw to residential and commercial the small difference Is that commercial needs bigger sums of money but other than that its kinda similar.

Connect if I can support your search in anyway.

I search for lenders in bigger pockets through bigger pockets.

That being said there are still close to 1% deals on the DFW MLS (I just sent 5 to an investor to check out) and smaller markets that are cheaper on the front end but have a good rental base because of a college or military base are good places to look.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

If you're based in the DMV area and have had experience working with new immigrants with limited credit histories, please reach out!

My office and my house are just north of Reeb-Hosack2 - I do not have the data to support this but based on what some of the long term tenants in the area are at with their rents, I would say they have increased a lot3 - I would say so https://www.zillow.com/home-values/76576/columbus-oh-43207/4 - There is crime in the area but no more than any other city

I looks like the former, based on the following definition --"The term placed in service means the time that property is first placed by the taxpayer in a condition or state of readiness and availability for a specifically assigned function, whether for use in a trade or business, for the production of income, in a tax-exempt activity, or in a personal activity."

I'm not sure where they might have been looking but 4 points seems a bit high based on what you just mentioned above. 

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