But, I did just get my real estate license and plan to use it actively, so if I see any other areas we can expand.

I work full time in a student activities office at a large, public university in the Northeast and it just kills me to see what the university spends its money on.

You get very high (not highest) returns with an extremely small time component that allow you to focus on keeping the rest of your portfolio active and working hard.

If I had the option of taking 25K and purchasing an additional property on the same block.while I wait for other money to be returned on some notes I have I would then put my tenant into the new property and rehab the fire damaged one on a less stressful time table.Its still a huge buyers market in Dayton and I expect that it will not change over the next twelve months.

If anything this being a hedging activity might indicate that if certain sectors of the economy turn around performance may plummet.

When it comes to getting rid of neighborhood drug dealers or unsavory activity that affects your investment, I like Rule #15: Always work as a team.For various (often silly) reasons, we shy way from working with neighboring landlords and property owners.

Maybe a flipper, maybe a landlord, but an active buyer nevetheless.Also look for the lenders on recent transactions.

Not many here are into larger projects, at least the active bunch, but we may have lurkers that do and just have had no one to kick ideas around with......so jump in!

Part of the willingness to make offers far below asking price is dependend on just how active the buyer wants to be.

You'll get newspapaer, radio and TV coverage, sponsors for materials, benefit and fund raising activities to work with.