Hello, I am new to Real Estate investing world, and have been educating myself since summer of last year, and been to only one local REI meeting and currently enrolled in a very good online course mostly on how to wholesale properties, but still have not pulled the trigger yet.

The IRS requires that the entity that completed the 1031 exchange (in this case, the LLC) remains the owner to avoid triggering capital gains taxes.One approach might be to hold the property in the LLC for a period (generally recommended at least a year) to demonstrate intent to hold it as an investment.

I am wondering if this is a reflection of a shift in our rental market or if others out there are finding the data is skewed high on that platform.  

These will walk you through from the very basics to the expert understanding of what private capital is and how to use it https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/creative-financing-...If you want to start smaller with some free content here are a few great podcasts I can recommend that go over private financing in varying degrees of depthPrivate capital part 1 of a 5-part series with Amy Mahjoory https://link.chtbl.com/ZlYVqXS1Raising your first $1M podcast episode https://link.chtbl.com/BKwpsdf2Private money explained: buying without a bank https://link.chtbl.com/APiLG_Zj

Also, I highly recommend doing an analysis of how much you stand to make with and without property management, then see if the difference in profit justifies the risk. 

@Travis B. can you recommend other PM firms in Detroit for those who aren't buying properties with or through you?

If you can find a deal that cash flows decently now, I do think we'll start to see 3%+ per year organic rent growth again sometime in the next 2-4 years, since new construction starts have been very low the past 2 years so new supply coming online is going to drop a lot in the coming years. 

Hey @Debbie Palmer, so I am with @John Underwood on calling.https://www.loganutah.gov/government/departments/community_d...There are several folks listed on that site that should be able to advise.I will say that she will essentially need to clear out all her personal and important things.

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