God touched me today to take a step back and recognize this enormous opportunity, to be able to personally witness exactly how a man's life can go from high to low, rich to poor very quickly without it actually happening to me.

A lender I interviewed a few months ago told me they automatically allocate 35% into their maintenance equation.

Especially a concern in rural areas, you want to make sure that if the hydrant is recognized as having enough water that it really can deliver.

Unless you really want to get involved with the active management of those investable assets, I´d encourage you to interview a few financial managers (not advisors, actual managers) and see what they can offer you.

Dont take no for an answer, insist on at least an interview.

I've heard:-$30K homes are bad because of depreciation and low quality tenants-Media price homes have better tenants but because of the price, cashflow could be thinnerI'm at a loss on how to recognize a good buy and hold deal.

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I literally have altered my own perspective and recognize that fear is like a sign post screaming "here is where the opportunity is, come on!"

I was told that if we wanted any sort of official document from the city recognizing it as a legal triplex, we would need to prove it had been in use as such since the change was made in 2000 and not vacant for more than 12 months.