I'm an educator, a personal caocher and business advisor and since my kids has grown up 10 years ago I started doing real estae in Israel, where I live.A few years ago we went into some 3rd party investments in the USA, as part of an LLC group of investors- one in Manhattan and one in Atlanta.Based on the experince I have with those market (as well as Newtom MA, where I lived for 3 years) I lately decided to choose Milwaukee as my next market, focusing at the moment on single family houses.I'm looking into 3/2 single familiy houses to buy and will be happy to work with local agents and build a team.

I have a small real estate development/construction/investment company with four partners.

I had to remind myself this is a business purchase only.

Do you have a good investor friendly real estate agent in your area you can ask if they have a referral for a good insurance broker?

The beautiful thing about real estate investing is there are several avenues you can choose from depending on your end game. 

And, other flippers/investors are typically not going to share who their good contractors are because they don't want them to be too busy for the investor's jobs when they come up.  

Recently I've been trying to get into real estate by wholesaling so then I could get some experience but when I skip trace nobody will answer the phone!

I do fortunately have room to absorb that loss, but with increased taxes, insurance, and maintenance/repairs starting to get reeeeally thin on the margins 😬Yeah, I hear that.For me, real estate has always been a long-term game.

Unless you or your wife can qualify as real estate professional status and claim passive non-cash losses against your active income.

What would be the return if they put it in the stock market, bonds, syndications, real estate notes, etc.