My first post aside from Intro, so hope this is the right place and would welcome any insights.I have an Entrust SDIRA that I funded from a roll over of some stock I had from a previous company I’d worked for and had basically ignored until recently.I have a person in FL that I (Lancaster County, PA) want to give a small 30K first position mortgage to.

"You had the chance to pay for pest control and you chose not to" is our stock response with pest complaints.

Wait until your dead, the downside risks will have been baked into the cake by then.

Next time just stock what is needed per reservation.

Purchase price: $185,000 Cash invested: $50,659 Two unit, three bedrooms each, great neighborhood on dead end street.

It would help if you mention your price range, btw.Of the towns you mention as goals, Lexington probably has the greatest diversity of housing stock and prices.

My original goal was to build a portfolio of dividend paying stocks as well as to invest in Fundrise and peer-to-peer lending platforms.

Paid in full just about $800 and was told only after ordering they didn't have them in stock and it would be a couple of weeks.

A paper by Joshua Gallin published in Real Estate Economics (The long‐run relationship between house prices and rents) was a great place to start, and the gist I got is that we can measure risk in the home ownership market using the price to rent ratios, much like we do in the stock market with price to earnings ratios.

Many areas will have Times of year, they are busy or they are dead.