Otherwise, the advice may be incorrect and cause you harm.Every state has unique laws.

Its a unique situation but I understand it as my brother just traveled for 6 months for a construction job.

Now that I am in a somewhat unique and special situation (at least I believe so), I am turning to the best and largest community of RE Investors that I know of.

@Jerry Poon  There are some unique pockets for investing in the state...

Funds are then moved from here into our general account.Since each tenant has a unique card number, we can easily match payments to tenants {I've written a procedure in our accounting software to do this when we download our bank transactions}.

Otherwise, the advice may be incorrect and cause you harm.Every state has unique laws.

I know rural areas and big cities will have unique circumstances; for comparison's sake I'm interested in the suburban type areas in other countries.

I think you have a lot of unique options if you're looking to get started in the Central Illinois area.Have you checked out the BP podcasts?

@Heajin Kim,A 10 percent return would be too low to get the attention of most seasoned investors, especially active seasoned investors.Every Investor is UniqueI believe that every investor is unique in that they must determine their own level of risk and workload vs. reward.

Keep in mind, you may have borrowed the purchase and renovation money, but you are still 100 percent responsible for repaying the loan(s).