While overall sales are down, Macy's is seeing positive results in its targeted investment stores, which are outperforming the broader chain.The demand for Macy's real estate could signal opportunities for other struggling department store chains.

Remember, if you have to carry a gun to collect rent, you made a bad investment decision.

I know the area is great for investing and I would like to build my network and have a flow of deals coming in. 

I’m very grateful and lucky my investments have built so much equity and capital but I would like to move it into monthly cashflow so I can work away from a w-2.

Typically there may be a min. charge - for example for travel to a property etc.

He is living in their family investment home but she's selling it and she's looking for somewhere for him to go.

On investment homes, I have learned that it matters less about how cute they are and more about the numbers. 

I've been looking at different programs, mostly through the government for areas that I'm interested in investing in, but have not really came across anything that I would be a candidate for.

My real estate agent there says he isn’t concerned with the permit situation in Rome and he invests there himself and manages quite a few of them for other clients as well but I’m not as confident in the government there as he is. 

This strategy allows investors to defer capital gains taxes when they sell an investment property, provided they reinvest the proceeds into a like-kind property.