Once you have a shortlist, sign up for an account with each one and test them extensively to see how they function.

Maybe chat with a financial advisor and have them help you set up an IRA and throw 25k directly into that on a high/medium/low-risk level and watch that slowly grow as a slush fund for further investments. 

Now, I'm seeking to scale up and build my portfolio by investing in multi-family properties.

I am a physician in NYC, a friend asked me to help a single mother with two teenage children who ended up on the streets after being evicted in Houston.

I lived next door, growing up it belonged to the original homesteader, a little old lady named Thelma.

The BRRRR method is definitely NOT the most comfortable way to get started, but it's so worth it and you learn so much along the way.

the rents can be brought up to market value maybe of $5200 but that doesn't make sense either

Did anyone end up investing in Grenada?

Material prices have gone up so some may charge 4-5k as well.

Although leasing activity is down 63% from pre-pandemic levels, the pace of new vacancies is slowing, reducing unoccupied space from 58 million to 44 million square feet over the past year.Multifamily PropertiesHigh mortgage rates have boosted demand for rental units, with net absorption up 90% year-over-year.