I am not a writer, a poet, or a prude.Chapter One " What was I thinking" January 2014I started the process by assessing/evaluating which credit tenant I wanted to focus on, and settled with the Dollar type national credit tenants.I then looked at markets within 90 miles of Tallahassee, and studied the footprint of the three major Dollar tenants looking for gaps in the foot print and assessing why there were gaps.

Assessment was $1K this year.

In 2002, the Pennsylvania General Assembly introduced Senate Resolution 171 and House Resolution 434, which urged the Health Department to form a task force that would assess mold and the issues associated with it."

Certainly more could be said on this but hopefully that helps.In regards to rentometer, that is a great start for assessing the rental rate or range that you should be in for setting your rent amount.Best wishes!

@CK Hwang Yes this is very clearly off topic.Attempting to assess the prospects of building a business which one may inturn want to sell on to an individual who may find that they could use the business not only to achieve their real estate goals but perhaps obtain a visa for their family is very different from the regional centres who are seeking to fund their projects.So why are you recommending I seek an attorney or on what basis are do you feel you are fit to caution me when I have established that the construction industry does not fit this profile and I am proceeding to work on my own personal projects?

I agree with @Paul Timmins that getting several PM's opinions is a great way to go - especially for assessing an area for rental properties.

I will recommend starting by doing a self assessment to see if real estate is something for you.

You may ready my other posts to learn more but here are couple:You have checkbook control over your retirement account and eliminate the custodian, making the process of acquiring and maintaining your investments really efficient (no need for a custodian approval, simply write the check and execute the transaction).If you decided to finance real estate in your retirement account, when using IRA it is subject to UDFI tax (type of UBIT assessed on leveraged real estate).

Go to everything you can assess the value per cost.

A bird dog that called me with this lead today.The house is a 3br 2ba ranch, sf is 1740, tax value is assessed at 150k.