For less than a cup of Starbucks, a user can get the privileges to post ads for deals, buyer's lists, loans they are offering or seeking, or can advertise their company, product, or service.

You also need to take into account if your competition is waving the security deposit for qualified applicants,charging a pet fee or not,paying for any water,sewer,trash for the tenant included in the rent,including appliances,or giving a rent credit on move in, and many other factors.Rent rates can look good until you see how many landlords you are competing with,quality of the product,and incentives given driving down the net rent before debt service and depreciation.

I always wanted to know what a guru's product looks like and have sometimes been tempted to order his stuff.

Are you confident that the firm will structure the offering properly to be both legally compliant and marketable?

Our fund doesn't buy self-storage so I don't know what the financing market for that product type looks like right now.

Thanks Sherry.I actually use Corelogic's Realquest product (Corelogic is the company, Realquest is the product) for looking up property owners names and running comps on a pay per search basis.

Make friends with a title officer and they will give you access to systems that let's you pull any document you want.If you have MLS access, the ones in California come with a First American product called Realist that gives you basic ownership info for free.

The starting bid is in line with the proper value of the property.

Next you either wholesale it which involves marketing, finding buyers, closing...all while trying to make a modest profit.Or you could rehab and resell it which involves properly setting your budget, knowing the market to determine exact repairs/finishes to make, lining up contractors, managing your budget, managing your contractors, managing your schedule to minimize your holding costs, finding an end buyer, with 100+ other tasks mixed in.Your comment about planning is dead on.

Moved to proper forum.I think you mean that his parents actually own the home (i.e., are the "grantee" on the deed) and have a mortgage on it.