It's nice just sitting back and collecting interest instead of running around meeting with sellers, contractors, title companies, etc.Yes i found this a very natural progression for many investors.. almost all start out with rentals.. and over the years they just burn out of them.. but want to stay in real estate understand real estate and then morph to the debt side instead of the equity side.. but believe me when a loan goes bad you do have your work cut out for you.. and you can for sure lose money.. 

As for the investment cycle term, thanks to their non value-add nature, you have to hold for the long term in order to recoup transactional costs and the slight decline in price once the 'new car smell' from the TK provider's renovation wears off.

You would be taxed at regular income rates but if you can get returns much better than the average 7% in the stock market it may be worth it.

Paperwork, legal matters, taxes, things of that nature.

We are a Los Angeles-based private lender that lends nationwide and works with out of state investors and first time investors regularly!

Your regular income gets added to the cap gain for the total that determines what bracket (0, 15 or 20%) you fall into. 

Send it by certified and regular mail and/or post it on the door in an envelope. 

Given the long term nature of our relationship with the owner, he was kind enough to allow us to view the listing before it went public and given we had already completed an enormous amount of research into the project we were able to offer full asking price.

Given the long term nature of our relationship with the owner, he was kind enough to allow us to view the listing before it went public and given we had already completed an enormous amount of research into the project we were able to offer full asking price.

I am in New England for a week or so, but when back in MIA will be at the computer more regularly, and will send out info to my family members in need of property management services.Originally posted by @Monica Labrada:Hi@Joseph James, Please reach out would be happy to help.