To be regarded as a real estate professional, you must perform a substantial amount of real estate business, defined as more than half of your time, and at least 750 hours, spent in real estate trades or businesses. 

CJ BennettYou should continue to increase your cash and utilize your real estate investing skills to analyze market circumstances, rental property prospects, house hacking, and other investment tactics.

If you have a good cleaner, your business is going to have the ability to be successful.

We typically look for areas with great schools in business oriented areas.

Meaning, if you need to do your own pm in order to make an investment work then the investment doesn't work, and you are trying to force it.PM is a job or business, not a required skill for a rental investor.

They told me that I can ask to increase rent ( their website says up to 9.2%) after a year.

Stephen I can’t quantify that very easily with the information I get to but I would say with decreased in enrollment and increases in number of available units.

The LLC should help you lower transaction costs since you as the LLC Manager can buy/sell property, taxes, etc by writing checks from the LLC's business account.I rolled my SDIRA from Equity Trust, no LLC (poor service, high fees) to Madison Trust w/LLC about 6 years ago.

What is your new business?

Good morning, does anybody have a CAD business/free lancer that they recommend?