First time buyer here, looking for advice.Like most first time buyers currently, I’m heavily questioning buying if now is the right time to buy. 

He is heavily involved with the National Real Estate Investors Association and can answer your questions.

I'm still heavily learning, and I'm getting the feeling that with real estate I'll be "still learning" until my dying day!  

I have to agree with waiting on investing heavily in real estate non-owner occupied.

Cash flowing and 20% up in equity.Reit and Other 1) Fundrise: Around 50k invested in equity and debt investment funds2) Variable Annuity: 25k in vanguard reit index Allen,As a fellow Angelino, I suggest selling one or both of your condos and investing the proceeds in either A) a multifamily in an affordable, gentrifying neighborhood in LA (like Inglewood, San Pedro, West Adams, El Sereno, etc) or B) in an appreciation out-of-state market.I'm sure you have a lot of equity in those condos, and with your equity position up 100%, you may as well move on to new pastures with the funds in 2022.Best,Jon  Agreed, with the adder that I would lean heavily toward the second option, and not just appreciating markets but also cash flowing and modestly leveraged.

We've been investing heavily in our unique partnership with Transunion and in January 2019 landlords will be able to order SmartMove reports with RentPrep's popular verification products as well.

The value of the property diminishes for single NNN heavily with the remaining term of the lease.

They will only give you a 15 to 20 year amort. as they want the loan paid down heavily before option periods kick in so that loan balance is close to dark value.

Anyhow, your decision to use a property manager is heavily dependent upon your lifestyle and how much time you have.

High touch" and customer service from an "impression" standpoint might suffer but all else could work very well.Automated showings is easy nowadays.Automated maintenance and scheduling is fairly easy nowadays also as long as you have a solid vendor list.Also, have to "teach" the tenant from day 1 on "How to" use and do all of these things so on-boarding instructional manuals are vital.Just my opinion but I'm seeing the world of PM go heavily in the virtual direction.Well, at least the smart companies are doing it.Less overheads and a heavy reliance on tech and automation.Unfortunately, tech has let me down much less than people have over the years...I had an in depth talk with our team and we pretty much only need an office to hold keys lolEvery one can work from home with ease.Granted, they got use to the smell of my cigars in the office hahaIs smoking allowed in closed spaces?