So, we found a property manager through a friend and fell into the business.In 2023 we decided the real estate thing might work, refinanced our property from 2009 and bought an additional rental property in the same area placed it with our current property manager… on purpose this time.

No professional is 'necessarily required' but it is normally a tradeoff between time saving, assurance that things are done correctly for a cost.For me, i can paint one of my rentals, but i decide my time is better spent elsewhere.Best of luck.

I’d ask the current owners to carry back a mortgage, say you make a down payment and agree to pay them 5 or 6%.  

Hi all,Long time reader finally decided to make a profile and ask some questions!

Not sure how they thought a check in your company name was a refund for them, but that should be an issue for the banks to decide after they let them deposit it.

I pitched it to my fellow investors, but numbers did not work for them and we did not want to purchase the house ourselves, our initial plan was an assignment.As time passed we decided this house needed to be listed on the MLS to get a retail buyer.  

Homeowners can rent their house to individuals looking for vacation opportunities or they can rent their house to a business owner who intends to use it for business purposes.Shifting Income from Your BusinessIf you are a business owner and do not use your home as your primary place of business, employing the Augusta Rule can be an effective strategy for moving income away from your business and shifting it to personal income, where there would be no tax consequence.For example, as a business owner, you host a monthly meeting with your Board of Directors.

But to manage for others I decided to subscribe to Propertyware which has accounting built into it as well so my QuickBooks is redundant however I keep QuickBooks as the backbone of my accounting and Propertyware as the tool that reflects accounting to my tenants and property owners.

I started investing about 8 years ago personally, then decided to become a professional a few years ago. 

Parks get shuttered and sold for new development when park owners fail to keep rents ahead of inflation and competing CAP rates and other uses become more lucrative.