Remember you don't have to own a property to control it.Good luckPaul

It is nice to have so many people in and around Rochester that I can look to for guidance.Dave, to answer your question I am interested in gaining access to the MLS, and I want to have more control over my deals when I start buying listed properties.

Think of it as a person with assets that you are assigned to control.

You get loan from someone else and then they sell it to fannie or freddie and you have no control over that.

I somehow suspect that once I have achieved success on that scale- that I will wish to continue to grow my portfolio... but i doubt it.I wish to make just enough money so that I can be in control of my time.

Remember you don't have to own a property to control it.

Build a network of team players that can facilitate your deals.

You have control over that, make it easy for them to expand, lower rents in a start up period and perhaps devise rents from gross receipts so the business owner has much less risk in expanding.The other way is build the business to go in there.

Appreciation is nice but it's not something we have any control over as we all saw in 2008.

Check out the forms and controls and overnight you will be up the leaning curve.