I desire to be an unstoppable force for good in this world, and right now real estate investing looks like one of the best ways to gain the resources necessary to do that.

Think about the amount of homeowners that lost their homes to foreclosure during The Recession that were forced to become renters, they will become home owners since they  can now qualify for a mortgage( 3yrs for FHA fmon time of foreclosure and 7 yrs for conventional).

Kathryn Rice is the driving force behind this.

If you were going from a four unit to a five-unit (commercial building) that could benefit from forced appreciation - THEN adding an additional unit could be justified from an equity creation standpoint BUT if you're under five units, then the decision is more subtle.

You can use a land trust to obscure the fact that you have transferred the property but from what I have read, you are still violating the Due on Transfer clause so if they discover it you may still be forced to remedy it or pay off the loan.I don't know about Mass but a quit claim shouldn't be more than a couple hundred bucks.

If you only have 20 units, you could probably do the PM part in Excel and the accounting part in QB.The big cloud PM suites look nice, but most are limited in their features and flexibility and force you to fit into their reports and accounting models.

With the 10 unit, you can literally force appreciation.

Water is a nasty, destructive, sneaky force that is better eliminated.

Also, another reason is it is one thing that is out of my control...I can't force a buyer to accept 80% of market value.

Always think of how it gets presented in court in front of a judge or jury.....big bad boy licensed realtor told me this or that or forced me to sign this or that, and I didn't have a clue what I was signing.....he didn't even tell me he was licensed and I never knew and never signed any disclosure forms.....that guy took advantage of my ignorance.