I just wanted to share one of my favorite quotes by Brandon Turner: “So often people think the key to success is superb intelligence, unnatural luck, excessive time to devote to big tasks, or knowing the right people at the right time.

The return on a single asset can be higher than a fund, but as they say "higher risk, higher return" so determine you appetite for risk and proceed with caution! 

i think a couple of friends of mine are doing this. they borrowed against their primary, i think as a 2nd TD on top of their low-interest 1st, and are now loaning those funds out as private money funds. personally its beyond my risk appetite, but to each their own.

I'm not going to allow you to exclude any other agent from bringing me a deal.I'm absolutely happy to pay you a commission for the deals YOU find and subsequently negotiate for me.I absolutely think the 60 day notice & one year auto-renew is excessive.

To me, I can understand paying the state tax in the state where I have the rental property, but paying a CA state tax's seems excessive.

While the rent was low, the building was the definition of deferred maintenance which I would soon discover in a utility bill from Georgia Power in excess of my monthly rent.

@Andy Pillinger, there actually is a way to use a 1031 to deal with that excess gain above your 250K primary residence exclusion.  

So, in review, take excess funds, place them in a brokerage account with aggressive margin rates, place cash in secured assets, borrow against said assets, and expand my real estate holdings essentially for free. 

Avoid excessive calling to the same call recipient.

Things of note at the moment: crime/homelessness increase, new property/wealth tax proposals, new eviction laws being proposed, commercial appetite (that’s a big one currently as it will say a lot regarding how remote work will affect the area).