While I am grateful for the benefit we’ve already seen from real estate investing, I am wanting to scale faster and I believe utilizing our untapped equity is a good starting point.

My suggestion is to come up with a list of questions that are important to you and speak with all these "gurus".Then evaluate the responses and your long term goals to see if anyone in particular stands out and can bring you faster (!)

If you master the ability of finding sellers faster than your competitors when their problems arise, you will consistently win deals. 

Rents will likely catch up at some point, but prices have shot up faster than rents.   

The only way to sustain your current lifestyle is if rents rise faster than inflation.

Hey Flavia, the decision about your mom is personal, but you can definitely grow and diversify faster in Florida.

While having a less amount of members may have a number of benefits, such as making decisions faster than larger companies, there is one issue that the two members must decide – what happens if there is a tie vote?

As a lender your credit is shot now, a BK would make it that much worse compared to trying to repair it, but sometimes a BK can repair it faster. 

Hi Scott, It sounds like a good opportunity to deploy the contingency fund for the issue with the roof that popped up.As tempting as it is to use that contingency money to pay down the loan faster I think that sticking with the original purpose of the funds and updating the roof is the best use of that capital for the following reasons:1.An updated roof adds value to the property.

I know you have a finance background and to each their own, but leveraging debt is a much faster way.