There are trade associations specifically for office,multifamily,industrial,retail,office,warehouse,hotel,self storage,etc.

A lot of small multis trade that way because there is a lot of deferred maintenance and the owner doesn't want to go through the inspection process,My advice is try to check out the property as much as you can ahead of time both by looking at county/tax records and also in person.

Investing in any of our funds is comparable to purchasing shares in a non-publicly traded company.

Of course it's early days and I need to research what consequences of holding properties in the US if I moved back to the UK or Australia first.I guess you check for flood areas here:http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/I found this decent little graph on historic data for Houston.

Never before has a generation had to deal with the economic consequences of a previous generation like the millennials.

I am a nurse by trade but am looking to learn anything and everything about real estate investing.

Assuming this is illegal, what would be the consequences even if I thought it was vacant?

Speaking with longtime mutual friends, some of whom worked in inspections and various others, working as sub-contractors in the "local" building trade gave me a very different prospective.

Now is the time to build then trade.

But I am just as skeptical because of the marketing machines and upselling that is a hallmark of their trade.