Would love to pick your brains :).

By investing conservatively, in good middle class neighborhoods we never suffered much in losses and by not having loans our flexibility and ease of purchase (cash) and sales (seller financed) always went smoothly.

It may be sacrilegious to say it on this site, but there are other asset classes out there that are not necessarily going to tank if RE does.

No scripts, NO cold calling experience.So when all else fails....Pick up the phone!

Generally a REIT might buy a large portfolio and not want all of the properties to re-balance their asset allocation percentages of a certain tenant type or asset class.

If it's in a decent submarket and is Class C or above, it should be easy to find a partner if you look in the right place.

I would intern at what ever real estate companies your interested in.My daughter was interested in finance.. and she interned during collage with a high level appraisal company that did apprasing for emanate domain cases.. and she worked on the one in Napa CA were the state and city bought out a big swatch of the napa river for flood control project and many business had to be relocated from hotel to shopping center to car dealer all of them needed to be valued.. it was high level work she enjoyed it.she then went on to graduate top of her class at Davis CA.. in managerial economics degree and promptly got snapped up my Intel after offers from Apple and Micro soft.now 14 years later she is a SEnior controller and a Dave Ramsey disciple which means at her age home just about paid for 2 kids in grade school and NO debt and a ton of savings and max's out her 401k.. she has little interest in real estate she owns one rental but only rents it to family. that was her path.  

I'm going to be in the Central Florida area this week from Thur-Sat and would love to meet up with some Ocala, FL investors for lunch or coffee to pick your brain a little.

Is there anyway to safely remotely run these class C high crime area Apt’s?

A friend of mine told me to buy on the west side of Houston in areas such as Katy, Cypress, Sugar Land, Richmond or up north at Katy because she thought those were pretty good working class neighborhoods.