Moreover, this is not to be considered “passive income”, on the contrary, it’s a very hands-on approach to real estate investing and typically should be executed by someone who has a passion for real estate or property management.

Now there some cons to this approach, but it's a cool option in a college town.  

Virtual Assistants can be useful to make calls but you need to take time to train and monitor - especially if you are using an off-shore company.I would start with a combined approach for both mail and calling.

These offer a "DTI-FREE" approach to underwriting.  

Question - what are the best software packages that can calculate short term rental analytics? 

Hi All,I've been approached by an old colleague who wants to go into business with me buying and flipping and/or buying and renting properties in Upstate NY. 

As such it tends be for very large portfolios.RentManager is a bit legacy in its approach even though it is cloud based.

It’s a shotgun approach to insurance, in that they shop the entire market and find the companies that will accept your risk instead of you, yourself calling 10 insurance companies and wasting your time.

As a matter of fact, you may want to approach another company before you meet with the original guy.

So my question is, what would be a good place to approach and start a dialogue with potential investors/land equity partners?