It's hard enough to make it work on a 30 yr or 20 yr term.Again, I fully realize how counter-intuitive this is to a newbie, because it was to me.

One thing that too many people have learned the hard way, and I have come to realize as a fact since reading this forum is that you have to calculate 45 to 50 percent of your gross rent as expenses.

Many of these newbies will buy rental properties and rapidly realize that they are in over their head.

Well I realize this is an old post, and might not have any luck with you responding, I live in this area and am looking to get started.

Unlike investment properties the money once made is made rather than realizing it over a longer period of time.

Make sure they are on board and will not back out when they realize what you want.

Sorry… Before now, I didn’t realize you were speaking about Tim’s post… (Maybe I read incorrectly)I thought you were replying to the original message in this thread… And you were commenting about a $10 consideration… That doing that is not “real investing” or is a ”one time" story… May or may not hold weight ($10 consideration) if challenged… but it is done all the time.We are both right… we are just talking about different things.

The demand and the performance of the sub-sectors is no uniform so realize what is not covered by the summary.A key point to the office market is job growth.

There comes a point in time when you must realize that in order to generate superior results, you must take superior action.

I remember when I actually made my first offers on some FSBOs and then reading over everything and realizing things I missed, or going to the investor meetings and finding other things I could have done or other ways I could have arranged the deal.