Used to they would let any agent do them but now BPO mills have stricter requirements and experience levels.

There were also a handful of loans to trusts made by WaMu and a few other extinct banks during the mid-2000's period of loose/cheap money.Title holding trusts, of the sort commonly used by real estate investors in my area, offer first level privacy for investor types and convenience of administration, but no real asset protection.

My experiences in two different college towns have been that the towns make good places for REI, but college students do not usually make great tenants.

. $10k/year definitely should earn you multiple mentors(with a reasonable level of proactiveness to return phone calls/emails and ensure that you are not forgetting to dot the i's and cross the t's that you are unaware of) to work with.

Unless the property is near a source of jobs or tenants (think colleges) you have an uphill battle to fill them.4.

And by the time we're 50, we would own it free and clear (and before the kid goes off to $$$ college).

That said the tear down/build up of a mixed use would be new for me but it is in a market where I own 4 residentials now, a college town, and the small downtown area has had extremely good occupancy and high rent rates for many years, even during the market down swings.

So, I thought about doing brackets for certain investment levels ($50k,100k,200k) and then adding a load factor for their % of the total fund but these are all just guesses and arbitrary.

Grew up in Baltimore, went to school at College Park, lived in Silver Spring/Rockville/Gaithersburg for several years after school.And may be moving back to the area in the next couple years

But go to college first.