@Quinn PreeceHere are my favorite books:Multifamily Millions by Dave LindahlThe ABCs of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroyThe Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve BergesCommercial Real Estate Investing by Dolf De RoosTrump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received by Donald TrumpTax Free Wealth by Tom WheelwrightCommercial Real Estate 101: How Small Investors Can Get Started and Make It Big by David LindahlRaising Private Capital: Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People’s Money by Matt FairclothThe Definitive Guide to Apartment Marketing by Josh GrilloInvesting in Apartment Building by Matthew MartinezCrushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate by Brian H MurrayThe 7 Secrets to Successful Apartment Leasing by Eric Cumley2 Years to a Million in Real Estate by Matthew MartinezBurn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands by Jorge NewberyCommercial Mortgages 101: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Winning Loan Request by Michael ReinhardIt’s a Whole New Business!

@Steve Hartkopf and @Greg Scottin regards to the estate planning aspect of real estate.. expanding on Dave's mention of DSTs.  1031 exchanging your properties into Delaware Statutory Trusts real estate portfolios allow you to effectively retire from active management, diversify into professionally managed portfolios across asset class/sector/geographic, have limited/passive ownership, and collect tax advantage income that gets a step-up in cost basis at passing eliminating any capital gains tax. 

If so, did you register each unit, or each building under a Holding LLC, and then an acquisition LLC in Delaware, for example?

I'm looking to put a new furnace in if anyone knows a great company in Delaware County Area PaThank you

I don't want to get caught with my tail in the door, and would like a back up home inspector if that is possible.If you have worked with a home inspector in Philadelphia or Delaware county that is meticulous and pays attention to all details of a home inspection, I would be enormously grateful.Thanks!

@Louis Van de VyvereWelcome to Bigger Pockets.

I have been on property tours where the street we were on was the correct street however the next street over was a cul-de-sac and you would not want to be on that street... ever.  

Due to equal application under the law, the fact they have allowed this building to operate for decades without one means they should not be able to single you out and not allow you to continue to operate it.Another option is to convert some of the two bedroom units to one bedrooms by "De-bedrooming" some of the bedrooms.

(I don't think BP is intended to be your de facto Tax Agent).It's up to her to decide if you should give her back any/all financial penalty she incurs.

The appeal in a Texas eviction is de novo, meaning that your basically redo what you already have done, but now you have to follow evidentiary rules.