They are easier to establish and maintain.

My name is Robert Myers, and my friend and I are looking to establish ourselves in the real estate investing world.

Asking the question on an application to establish who the occupants are is ok.

Based on the HUD guidelines the income inclusion/exclusions they list are only with respect to PHA.

Brian recommends going to the local REIA and establishing rapport with the president, and then asking who is the most investor friendly RE agent in the group.

I do hope every portal publishes results as deals mature....With respect to the actual calculations, when I dug deeper into the numbers I got a better understanding of why the wide deviation in Target Returns from deal-to-deal and why those Target Returns seem too high for my comfort level (if it is too good to be true....).

Omar - don't forget the political aspects of real estate.In respect to development (or re-development), we can only imagine how the economics of a new tract built in a tough area may have played out.Politician needs to repay a favor to a supporter, who just happens to be a developer.Developer sees an opportunity to (maybe) change a negative economic trend in that community.Developer builds one less profitable project so that a much more profitable one can be approved in another community.Bank offers low, subsidized financing due to local or national programs that exist at the time.Just because it doesn't (or didn't) make sense, doesn't mean it was unprofitable.

I think Ingleside is more established and might be more stable growth in value.

I get great local banking service and and all the free online ACH transactions I care to execute from my bank account.There are likely companies that offer a better brokerage account with respect to cash management. mysolo401K.com will set you up with any of them. 

In the most polite and respectful way.