I’m so excited to start investing, yet there are equal parts dread/fear as it feels like I still know close to nothing and the prospect of buying a home can seem so overwhelming.I know this was a very long introduction post and I’m truly grateful to anyone who took the time to read it through, let alone leave a comment or answer a question.

All things equal, being in a good school zone will help you fill vacancies faster and potentially charge higher rent.

Give each member an ownership stake equal to his cash investment.

I have not yet begun talking locally to real estate or tax lawyers, but would like to know if this community can offer me a point of reference.I have been told by some of my real estate friends that the best option is to move my properties into a business entity and have my children as equal business partners?

The lender will want a track record, 25% down, net worth equal to loan amount, and 12 mos reserves.

A 10% PM fee equals about 20-25% of your profit on a leveraged purchase.  

They were there 25 days of the month, which equals $1,000. 

My personal belief is that as a society globally, and especially in America, we’re very resilient, and we have thankfully, a very short memory (in a good way).

If the tenant continues to make a late payment on no fewer than five occasions per year, the landlord must give the tenant notice to vacate at least equal to the notice period outlined in the original lease agreement terms. (3) Material non-compliance.

It's Geometry that trains us how to multi-task.Algebra, is the study of how to execute the problems mathematically, and as long as the REI lives on the left side of the equal sign (the process), instead of the right (the end result), they will have control over the answer, and the strategies I spoke of above, can be found only on the left side of that equal sign.