I think there are some initial signs that the Austin area market is starting to change.For the second time in 2016, single-family home sales volume declined in Central Texas, down 3.1% year-over-year from July 2015. I...

Plus you can get the hang of managing on a smaller scale.

I'm also a newbie but have remembered reading that most lenders will not loan to LLC's, and if you transfer the title over to an LLC after you close you run the risk of the bank calling the mortgage due since it's technically hanging ownership.

In one event I had an opportunity to work with a Realtor to learn but the interesting thing is he flat out told me he sucks at teaching and it took him 2 years to do his first deal but I still gave him a try to find out that his teaching consisted of me hanging up bandit signs and getting a $25 ticket.

I am definitely leaning towards hanging onto the property and not refinancing for now to have a positive or neutral cash flow.

These people simply cannot hang in there for the long haul.Very often, I noticed that the work you do today will not reward you or your bank account for another three or four months, if not longer.

The graduates hang around for a while until they lose their money or, if lucky, give up before they do.   

Showing up at random is a great way to monitor the property, but it needs to be balanced with the fact that they don't want the landlord hanging around or breathing down their throat.

Like geocaching, it gets folks off the couch, gets them out in the communities seeing new things, and can be a way to meet and hang out with people in the area.The basic premise is that the whole world is one of two factions (choose wisely when signing up), that there are portals set up at churches and points of interest (kind of anywhere there is a community sign), and you travel around to get points to level up by visiting or battling for control of the portals.  

I worked for a design-build firm earlier this year that was strongly into the Triple Bottom Lines, and after hanging out in that atmosphere, so am I. :)As I'm going through the preparatory work for my own company, I'm now facing the question of whether to form a Benefit Corporation (as in, "start a corporation, elect "B" status, then ask to be taxed as an S-corp), or whether to just get the B-corp certification (i.e. create an LLC taxed as an S-corp but throw in the $500 annually for the B-corp cert).