Its usually not till you get to very large, mansion style homes, with crazy designs that call for lots of steel that an architect will defer to a structural engineer for design.

.- Specific Markets/ Sub Market - Purchase Price- Garden Style, Mid-Rise, High Rise, etc.- Type of roof- ReturnsYou can come up with your own investment criteria that works best for you. 

This weekend I am setting up my first open house style showing because I received more then a dozen inquiries after 2 days on the market.

This is a good opportunity to introduce the current tenants to your management style and your expectations.Consider sticking with M2M rental agreements.

I've learned more just from nuggets of information here and there than from any classroom style presentation.

In our area, tenants will only want new style kitchen, brand new appliances.

It's been taxed already (or rather, the taxes have been accrued.)Depending on your overall situation, you may save a few grand by restructuring your LLC as an S-corp and starting a formal W2-style payroll for yourself.

We were able to negotiate setback exceptions, stormwater drainage exceptions, and even a design exception for the style of build we were doing.

@Nicholas Knaebel I am leasing out a lot of units right now in the same building, so I bunch the showings and do an open house style.

In Texas, the general commercial style loan in this scenario is a 20 year Adjustable Rate Mortgage.