Current market rate is about 5% and even lower than that for the cheaper segment of market.2) PM - lots of people are self managing until rent grows to cover these costs.3) You should carefully screen the HOA and evaluate the management just like you would a PM.

This means we could see segments of the market out or under perform the market as a whole.

 I use a larger ticket system that is segmented for each client, so it is a bit of overkill for 95% of folksI asked my web guy (aka my 14yr old son) to email what we use now (he "oversees" most of my real estate clients due to conflict of interest with my day job)...

Extensive experience in creating high-impact campaigns & partnerships across platforms & audience segments.

Here is a contract that works in principle for sellers (Sale and Purchase Agreement)https://www.dropbox.com/s/btdjwte4p8k4j57/Standard...For a lease option assignment, use a letter of intenthttps://www.dropbox.com/s/enf31ammsbt4wfm/Letter-o...that letter of intent has a docusign segment.

Those that are in that market segment and know how to do it, and post their pics, give those wanting to learn a visible way to understand the process of rehabbing, and allows the rehabbers to show off their work.

While in college and finding your comfort zone and passion, work part-time or as an intern for a real estate investment company or for a real estate investor.Real estate investments and investor has many segments even within this seemingly simple term or phrase.

George Frye,I am not trying to discourage you from learning more about the finance segment of the real estate business.

Not sure if you listened to it yet or not, but this is exactly what I talked about recently on The BiggerPockets Podcast: Show 25 My segment comes on around the 48 min mark.

:The fact that house price growth in Canada generally appears to be significantly more than those in the US in the last few years does not mean that there aren't certain cities in the US were house prices are well beyond what is considered average either in US or Canada.There are always certain segments of a market where prices are so abnormal that some might exclude such markets when trying to determine general market average to avoid skewing the data.