The trick is finding people who are likely to sell, before they act on it.This often includes Absentee owners as many of them tend to sell in a few years.

An LLC tends to be a pass through entity, so its structured differently.So with that said, I would plan to buy the properties and hold them in your personal name.

As you scale the size of the multifamily, your risk tends to move in parallel with it, especially if you only plan on having (1) property site, as with anything else true scale is risk spread over a plethora of property.4.

Direct mail tends to work best when you send a campaign of 5-7 different pieces, 4 weeks apart from each other.

I picked a location that has many military people coming and going because houses tend to sell fast and there is always work if you’re good.

Most of what I've seen recommends the following:1) Make sure the city and neighborhood you're considering has the right demographics (growing population, ideally in the 20-30 year-old range since they tend to rent more), a diversified economic base, good schools, public transportation and low crime.

Parts of Milwaukee, especially the northwest side, tend to be lower income. 

As for the overall value of the property when thinking resale, I tend to go with the opinion that it may widen your pool of interested buyers, but will not create a large amount of additional value.

(http://www.meilleurtaux.com/credit-immobilier/baro...)Tenant are less headache... they tend to handle minor things themselves and be handy while my understanding is here tenants call for the slightest issue they have.

If I'm not working hard towards a goal I feel like I'm wasting the gifts I have been given, and tend to get bored and do stupid or self-destructive things (like sit on the couch eating ice cream and brownies while watching 'Top 10 Movies That....' videos on YouTube.)Thanks again everyone, your time and input are appreciated!