Background of my self I own two flooring stores with twelve years of interior construction experience.

A peer of mine has a rental property in his self-directed IRA. 

I have a list of 15 property management companies in MV/Burlington, but we have always self managed, so I have no recommendations.

Hey gainesvillej,I have done a bit of this using other peoples money through a self-directed IRA and making a spread on the interest rate.

Alot of time I am driving around familiarizing my self with neighborhoods, and I see the old "sign-down" house, where the yard arm is still in the ground but the sign that used to hang there is gone.

Hmmm.....my boss is a self-absorbed, arrogant, womanizing, a-hole who drinks too much.

It takes alot of intuition psychology and verry hard work to sucseed in this business you have to love chalenges its kind of like paying off a 30 year mtg but the more you learn the easyer it becomes theres alot to know from begining to end most important is working for someone that you can trust if its your own business then you should do fine but you cant do it all by your self originate process underwrite track the loans etc etc etc.......

Make sure ( if you are focusing on multifamily ) you brand your self as the go to guy ( or girl ) for multifamily.

IMHO, you need to develop clearly-defined objectives inorder to formulate a strategy to achieve your objectives.

For a self-employed person, a letter from a licensed Certified Public Accountant was required.