It naturally makes a lot of sense to me, its lucrative/challenging, and offers a great opportunity to mold our built environment and make lasting impressions on our communities.My absolute goal is to establish working development projects.

There are natural follow up questions to anyone responding to a question of what they do.

I've always had an entrepreneurial nature, and now as I begin to see more opportunities to delve into greater business ventures, I find myself drawn to real estate.At this point I'm just trying to educate myself as much as possible.

Applying stock market analysis of Convergence/Divergence [which may or may not be the correct application of such for this exercise] suggests that when a divergence of this nature happens, decrease in the underlying asset is soon to follow.

Thanks Chris,My moto is you can't learn more about it if you already know it all. inpressive background, If it ok with you I would like to hear a bit more about your "real estate holding company" I'm in the process of having my LLC setup now I have been operating without one for a while now, but I plan to be a lot more vested so the natural step was to from an LLC are there any items that have served you well you would suggest to include in the operating agreement ?

We always were naturals at picking that kind of stuff up.

The investors that took the risk then it is now paying off when they sell.There is a natural ebb and flow to when the herds feel it is safe to do something that is also the time when a majority of the quality properties have already been scooped up.I used to do more larger multifamily but in recent years do retail these days.

It is also a natural fit with financing and insurance. 

Ask them what needs to be done to each unit when you personally go and speak with each tenant or have a list of questions drawn up for your new PM to ask each tenant I.E. what can we change that would make things better, if you had a nicer unit would you be willing to pay more, if I do these upgrades will you resign a new lease or pay more, things of that nature.

I suppose it depends on the quality and nature of the direct mailing.What sort of "hit" percentage can one expect from this method?