For better time management, set aside a certain amount of time each day to respond to emails and update your social media feeds, then unplug.

Our other tenant is living on social security and she had no problem establishing a monthly direct deposit.Crazy huh?

If you like real estate investing and are interested in a socially responsible investment in single family notes, you could look into AHP Servicing.

You are the landlord, not the social worker. 

On top of that I see people acting as experts about it on social media when they have been doing it for one or two years.

I just had a prospective tenant text me asking if I would be open to renting to someone that has an ITIN number and not a social security number.

I know a while back, on a separate thread, several rental business owners discussed using Social Media as a screening tool - my response was as follows:"Social media can be tricky because verification of account ownership can be a hard one to pin down; ie. if you require it as part of your application, a tenant can supply a "clean" version of their social media presence (ie. professionally created social media profile) versus an account that the applicant might actually use regularly, but you may not have any type of verifiable information to confirm that they own/operate the account.

It's just that these deals are not going to be found on social media or MLS, you have to be plugged into the right wholesaler, that can bring these deals.

Hi Cameron,For this business, no degree is probably better than any degree.Why, because:They will not teach you how to make money in this business.You will spend a lot of time jumping through their hoops vs spending time on this business.Unless you're free at BYU you will have student debt to pay off.The positives to a degree you probably already know, possible job, possible social standing with some people, etc...This business is unique.Hire a CPA that knows this business, and you personally read the IRS rules on Deprecation, and 1031 exchanges.Hire an attorney that knows this business to form your LLC, and read an ebook about how to run the LLC.Make as many business friends as possible in the area you want to do business in by attending Real estate meetups.

I am the CEO of a social media marketing company and I am looking to move into the real estate scene.