The thing was essentially written for you.The advice given is extremely straightforward and easy to understand.

Once you have that then you align your team with your goals and have straight forward conversations with them on expectations.We manage over 1,000 properties in Houston and DFW and 50-60% of our owners are out of state.

Unit 1 is downstairs and is currently a 2BD/1BA unit - pretty straight forward. 

@Tim JohnsonI can put down more but then I might as well buy a straightforward investment property.

That’s not a straight forward determination with the way it worms it way on SchD’s questions on the second page and the potentially two tax worksheets.

We just want to make sure we are doing this the right way to kick things off... but also don't want to lose a months rent if its a lot easier / more straight forward than we think. 

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or loose money in any market.

Now we needed to buy.The value-add commercial real estate strategy is rather straight forward: you purchase an existing asset with a solid rent roll.

The forums are a great way to get your questions answered and connect with other members of the community.I recommend setting up keyword alerts (click the bell icon on the top right corner) so that you can be updated on all forum posts mentioning topics of interest. i.e. multi-family investing; out of state investing; house flipping; raising private money, etc.Looking forward to seeing you around!

 Coating an existing SPF roof is fairly straightforward.