These books are filled with practical advice to help you avoid these mistakes that start small and snowball into major issues.

I see you invested a serious amount of sweat equity (and real cash) into turning it into something practically new from the inside out, and it looks like it paid off in a big way.

Quote from @Virginia VanOeveren: To start as a private money lender, educate yourself on real estate investing and lending practices, define clear loan criteria, and conduct thorough due diligence on borrowers and properties.

The owner can designate a host who shall be responsible, and authorized, to act on the owner's behalf to promptly remedy any violation of these standards or the permit.

And in the modern era, real estate and stocks returned practically the same amount (within 1%).

I just wanted is sue a warning against one such company - due to the egregious manner in which he exercised his predatory practices  - in the guise of a legitimate company!!

A window A/C might keep it comfortable, but it often doesn’t meet the standard for counting it as fully finished square footage.

I have not reviewed BAM's fees but it's likely based on their representation of UNDER 10% "skin in the game" that most of their "investment" is taken from fees deducted from the money gamblers place with them and counted as equity in the deal; this is a common practice in the syndication industry. 

@Denise Lang some copy & paste thoughts:TYPES OF RENTAL INVESTMENTSRecommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

Not sure if this has worked through but a winery that has been long on the market might be suffering from poor practices by the viticulturalist.