The average person can totally achieve financial independence easily with education, self-discipline, and consistency. 

Personally, I like the all-in-one units but they are expensive and poorly suited for larger units where it will take forever to get a load of laundry done (since you can't move the clothes from the washer to the dryer).

My personal and professional experience has been that they do not provide actual replacement costs in their evaluations. 

I got quoted $1490 yearly cost plus a $30/mo retainer to have unlimited access to my personal real estate accountant.  

I've personally worked with a handful of "investor-friendly" lenders, primarily on DSCR loans in recent years, and each time I've run into significant delays, lack of transparency about the process, have been fed the requirements in a piecemeal fashion (every few days there's a new random request rather than having it all organized from the start), and have even run into lenders who were substantially misinformed about the real estate industry or the laws that govern it on both a local and federal level.I think there should be a better site to encourage accountability by tracking how long it actually takes each lender to close their loans on average, and what unexpected hurdles investors encounter when trying to work with them.I can't seem to find such a site.

Just a FYI you don't need an LLC to do RE investing. if you are looking for the checkbook control then yes you will need one, make sure the custodian you choose explains the prohibited transactions and disqualified person list to you. 

Welcome and best of luck on your real estate investing journey!

They have a more modern view the marketplace than some of the other, more traditional outfits like MDS.When I was active in senior housing, I was the in-house feasibility study point person doing both the forensic analysis of the market and competition ultimately making the recommendation for go/no-go on a project.

Not sure where you are in your U.S. investment journey but have you heard of Doorvest?

Personally, we're okay with properties that cashflow decently, but have long term appreciation upside too.