What is your procedure for handling a tenant calling you on a cold Winter day at 2AM on a Saturday saying the heat went out and they have no alternative heating method.1.

If I was a homeowner who needed to sell right now, I don't have time to let a Realtor hold my home on the market for 3-4 yrs. i would look for other alternatives.

I'm learning, though, about hard money lending and other alternatives on these forums, especially for over 10 properties, so may be a different avenue, although much higher rates, but it could be your solution if you found the right investors.

So, if you want to sell, do it properly, or keep it and continue to rake in more on rents than you would from an alternative investment on that sale.

As an alternative, I proposed buying a nice 3/2/2 that she and a couple of friends (also young medical professionals) could rent from me.

This can be either because they are not yet starting families or because they have alternative ideas regarding education (private schools, coops, homeschooling, etc.).

There is $1.2T in un-tapped resources here, and 6 million holding it looking for an alternative investment!!

Not sure if anyone has experience with these setups but it sounds like a good alternative to paying the $20k-$50k.

I am thinking of using them as an alternative to renting my place to a regular leased tenant.Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

The alternative is to carry something on your balance sheet at what is clearly an incorrect valuation for years or decades, which is clearly more of a distorting factor than any error introduced by valuing it incorrectly at year's end.