What little trust I had in the seller disappeared during this process.Now, three days after finalizing all that, I get a text from my agent that they have assigned a street address.

Once you start to find something wrong with almost every deal but finally find one that really makes sense, run it by your mentor to see if they agree it is a good deal.

Eventually, after finally admitting he could not obtain a loan, he failed to return my capital, and completely stopped responding just long enough until the banks were unable to reverse any payments.

Instead of having to enter personal info and upload an image of your driver's license for each Reporting Company, the Individual FinCEN ID allows you to input your personal data once and then link the Individual ID to your various Reporting Companies. 

So I call many "Deferred Specialist" and they finally advise me to do 1031 instead because if the LTV is not less than 50% and the sales proceed are not large enough -- it's not profitable for them to work to manage the Deferred Sales Trust AUM. 

Hey all,I have been listening to Bigger Pockets content for maybe 4 years and finally have removed myself from some side hustles, have the capital, and grew the...brains to start real estate investing.QUICK BIO:I am based in New Jersey, I work as a marketing/efficiency consultant, and have 2 avenues of real estate investing:Short-Term Rentals: I have 3 short-term rentals using my parents apts in NJ ( 1 of them just launched in Nov) for the past 2yrs near NYC (1 of them just launched in mid-Nov).

Tools like PropStream, Redfin, or Zillow’s market data can help you identify neighborhoods with high demand and favorable price-to-ARV ratios.

The Surveyor finally showed up, two months after we started. 

I need to learn more about the dsts including tax ramifications, depreciation and finally liquidity.

You can use client data to support your work as an investor-friendly agent without making it a pitch.