Then they blew out the old double garage making it into a massive kitchen, added a 3.5 car coach house & made the original tired old kitchen/dining room/1/2bath/hallway into a ground floor master bedroom with an ensuite.

All of the condos on Front Beach do well during season but some HOA's fail at maintaining the grounds in my opinion.

There are endless options: single family, multifamily, condos, self storage, mobile homes, land, ground up develpments, etc the list goes on and on.

Reading books and talking with other investors at RE meetups gives you a ground floor education on specific strategies, a decent start to your education and a knowledge of the lingo.

If you BRRR (DIY method), you fix a distressed home from the ground up, you can flip it for a profit or keep it as a rental.

A couple of things I learned from him...Always perform background and credit checks on the parents (the apple usually doesn't fall too far from the tree)Have in the lease that underage drinking parties are grounds for evictionCreate a one page doc that serves as "welcome to your first apartment".

Thank againThe next step is for me to get on the ground there and check it out for sure.

Network with on the ground real estate investors and you'll see that real estate offers a greater return than the market (At the very least equal).And a toast to the @Michael Street, a self responsible gentlemen who will be vacating a job to an incoming college grad before he's 100 without the need for assistance from the American taxpayer!

I'm so grateful for you.

Properties in St Louis seem like they could cash-flow.city-data.com tells me the population is falling by 11% Zillow tells me house prices will fall by about 7%What's the story on the ground, how is the market feeling and why are things looking a little challenging right now.Can anyone share any suburb recommendations?