Don't be afraid to shop around on your variable rate loans..

Moving on from there, as the neighborhoods get safer as far as crime rates go, the prices to buy will go up, as well as the rents, but the rents usually don't go up proportionally as much as the purchase prices, so your % return gets lower and lower.

Yes, some people are educated enough that they can do their own shopping and contracting.

Lots of shopping and all the box stores.

I will delay the decision to act on my own behalf until I'm ready to shop for a property.

My current project is to remodel two buildings in a commercial shopping center in Wimberly, Texas. 

My understanding is that DSTs offer lower returns but are safer and easier than syndications since they are less leveraged and sold through brokers who provide some filter for quality.  

Cost me $7k, made the shop look bad, and took me a while to reestablish my good name.

Talk to Cathy Craig, she’s the local realtor there that works with the short term shop.

Same with pools, equestrian facilities, and of course, proximity to great schools, shopping, restaurants, etc.After the physical items comes the paperwork stuff like watching out for very long DOMs ( days on market) and sudden rise in supply or drop in demand.