What sort of questions are you thinking of?

True, or have minor cash flow with larger appreciation expected from your reasearch in the future.

Doug, thanks for the input.There is one extra step with code violation, and that is you need to look up the address of the owner, because often the violation property is not owner occ.What sort of message would you use on a postcard for this?

No way could we grow the resort to get to 45%, unless we grow the summer to be larger than winter.

When investing in 1-4 unit properties, the larger portion of your profits come from a combination of your equity at purchase, appreciation (compounded by the use of leverage), principle paydown, tax deductions, and appreciation.In commercial properties and multifamily 5+ units, your are purchasing an income stream, plus the ability to force appreciation (increase income, lower expenses, add capital improvements, etc), and of course, buy at a discount giving you intstant equity.

Yes, component segmentation can allow you to take a larger depreciation deduction in the early years of property ownership, but if you never sell the property the total depreciation allowed over 27.5 years with component segmentation will be the same as the depreciation allowed without component segmentation.

It is believed to be a fundametal Judeo-Christian philosophy (one of the many we've adopted into western society) but the truth is that if one checks the Bible - rarely was charity of any sort a secret.

YOur best advice on how to structure this is from your attorney, not from the opinions of others on an open forum, myself included.Good luck to you.By the way, grouping funds from a few individuals to create a larger purchasing power is a great startegy when used legally and properly, such as with an LLC and O agreement.

I'm interested in residential rehabbing and buy and hold initially and would like to move into larger scale commercial redeveloping.

I plan to save more as I learn more about REI.I wanted to ask if there were any REI clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Marin County or Monterey Bay area, or any groups of meetings of that sort that anyone knows of.