Smart and well-capitalized consumers hate "tell me" advertising and only work with "show me" advertisers. 

Did you advertise the place for rental?

This means that to benefit from the separation between my personal assets and the company’s assets, I need to establish the LLC in New York State.However, I’ve found that the start-up costs and procedures for opening an LLC in New York State are significantly higher and more complex compared to other states (such as the requirement to advertise in several newspapers for an extended period).

However overall international tourism went down more than 50% because of the strong dollar and weaker Yen also, a lot more people from the US going to Mexico/Europe because of the affordability.

Feel kind of non-sense that biggerpockets advertise multi-family a lot and there is no way to find the deals for that.

Hope everyone has been doing well halfway through the 2024. I just ended my management company (30 notice), officially ends the third. Due to their lack of urgency to get repairs done to get the home rented out. (Had ...

The issue is Calumet City is a good 45 minute drive south of Chicago and North Chicago is actually about an hour drive north of Chicago (talk about false advertising).

The plan: I am identifying on/off market properties that are targets, will do all of the real estate work (listing, showing, advertising, vetting, etc) and will split the cost of the purchase of the home and the material costs for any needed repairs.The contractor will be subbing out portions of the job and be on site mostly full time until the project is completed. 

I just wear so many hats...for example...I do the advertising, selling, hiring, firing, scheduling, payroll, taxes, product research, price negotiation, inspections, insurance meetings, insurance write ups, bank meetings, draw requests, and when I need to I can pick up any tool on any project and do the work better than the lead guy on the crew.

Seems like most condos only allow STR through their own management for a hefty fee, but the ease of not having to worry about advertising and listing sounds nice.