Ideally, I'd like to invest in some lower maintenance projects, possibly with partners who are starting out and could use my expertise.Thanks for the great forum, I look forward to perusing it further.

The places I am looking at are anywhere from 250-450k (ideally looking to spend 280-350k).

Each city is a market unto itself with it's own plusses and minuses and must be analyzed individually.

Banks are also notorious for "shopping" your offer for the purpose of getting a better price.I have bought a lot of REOs and have found banks to generally be a lot harder to work with than individuals.

Individual stocks have too much risk for me.

I'm curious if the higher volume individuals have their own "maintenance man" on hand to adress repair issues.

Hi all,I've been a REI for about 3 years now and have finally decided to make the leap and do more deals (the last time I made a deal was 3 years ago, when I started).I've been re-educating myself (books, web) for the past few months and wanted to join a club, meet like minded individuals and learn more from those that are DOING rather than DREAMING.

(See my recent post about this).The Background on the Active Real Estate Exception:Rental real estate, in many cases, is held to provide financial security to individuals with moderate incomes.

I also wanted to know how entities get treated as opposed to individuals in that regard.

Ideally, you want that muscle group to be tapped out, by the last repetition, of your last set.