NACA has extra hoops to jump through but there’s no income limits and there’s no closing costs or down payment.

So his idea is,  you either own real estate conventionally thru fee simple ownership, or control real estate thru NNN.These leases appeal to owners who had properties for a very long time, unable or unwilling to sell because of capital gain reasons, too old to manage the properties, yet want to hand them over to heirs.

Small brokerages are not interested in you as their activities are limited.

I find them to have many advantages in diversifying my retirement portfolio, and I enjoy the control that comes with being able to choose my investments.

Banks will typically limit you to 4 houses before they cut you off.If you do things the way I do them by using "Subject To" to buy the properties, you get in more cheaply and there is no bank to cut you off so you can do as many of these as you care to.

In order to save money and have more control over my projects I was thinking about taking a carpentry course so I can learn how to do some of the work on my own renovations when the time comes.

@Michael Pears I understand the capital tied up in the properties and that limiting me from purchasing other deals in the immediate future, however, the cash flow that these three units are producing, I would need to put at least as much if not more capital into three or more other properties to get the same amount out.

CA is out of control. 

You could potentially still own 49% of the property and sell to an investment company that has 51% control but I would need to verify this

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