The returns on keeping current tenants for the past 1.5 years have far outweighed turning over each unit.My point is that there are many ways to keep a current tenant, maintain positive cash-flow, and cover yourself all at the same time.

like I mentioned earlier I desperately want to do my own things I’ve lived and breathed construction and real estate the past 4 years and am now just ready to do something with it.

Hey everyone, I'm a new member of BP and this past year went full in on real estate investing.

If you're only getting 4 or 5% CoC Return on the capital you're investing, you'd be better off investing in the stock market, which I believe has historically returned an average 9 - 9.5% over the past several decades.

I've sent out some direct mail to apartment owners in the past.

Texas, lived in Houston for 9 years after graduating from Texas A&M and for the past year have called a small town in south central Arkansas home (El Dorado, AR.).Having lived here for a year I’ve seen what this market has to offer from a housing standpoint and there is a serious void of modern/updated housing, be that for sale or rent.I’ve decided now is the time to begin my journey as an investor.

I started flipping houses in 2007 with over $1million in debt, a $60k tax lien on my credit from the IRS, and no job...oh yeah, and a past bankruptcy (yep, a loser in the bank's eyes). 

You can opt in to receive 5% of your commission as stock at a 20% discount. 2016 ended with about 2400 exp agents, 2017 ended with 6500 agents and they are already past 8000 agents.

I've been using one for the past 4 months for seller leads (cold calling) and she's been great, but trying to expand my core base of buyers so that I can tackle some other areas and zip codes and some more people to move the deals to.What are some of their tasks? 

In the past few years one of the counties that I work on tightened up and isn't allowing a mobile home to be put on a property unless the property already had one.