Hi @Marc Anthony,Very helpful question you raised, seeing as there's so much incentive to work with all prospective clients and disregard red flags.

Hello all, We just listed a vacation rental on Evolve & was anticipating a low rental price due to their method of first building market share & then gradually raising rental prices slowly.

My wife thinks we should raise the rent slowly over the next year.

I look forward to connecting with all the great people involved in real estate here and to learn how to raise capital for investment projects.

Any advice on some cost effective ways to make my place look nice, liveable, and raise value?

That might cos you a lot of money if you'd raise money from different countries (unless these are countries without securities laws).

Do you want to be in a job where the pay raise after ~3 decades of work is, in total, only about 4%? 

Born and raised in the DC suburbs, in good ole' Maryland, the only times I have left the area have been for vacations and the occasional summer internship.

Raise funds from friends and family to invest in a multi-family complex.4.

Do I think the existing rents are about market rate or is there room to raise them?