To them 100 houses with 1 renter each is the same as 14 full houses in terms of profit. 

unemployment are cracking behind the surface, the actual number of unemployment is different in every state, California is the worst in term of layoffs in 2023 , but California is also the best performance in residential real estate in 2023.

I would not play around with creative finance in terms of spending time trying to find it because it will end up not being the best use of your time unless you have marketing money and understand the different scripts and way you can help people with seller finance or sub to.

If you are looking for a place to move yourself before beginning investing, I think you have made a great choice in choosing Virginia over Maryland or DC in terms of the local metro area.

I am being told in a specific instance that copies of leases are not provided to owners because the legal binding agreement is between the property manager and the resident.In this case, I would have zero visibility on the nature of the lease terms, as well as who is responsible for certain costs borne (utilities, etc)If this exclusion to owners is allowed, what is required in terms of document retention in the case of termination of relationship?

When calculating cap, and other deal analysis criteria, none of them talks about how to assess the property in terms of its appreciation based on structural quality such as brick exterior versus vinyl.

I have built myself a BRRR calculator, and the numbers (in terms of cash-flow) are convincing.

In terms of market insight...I'd recommend going downtown to see for yourself.

I personally love Columbus in terms of doing value add.

And you need to take care of more basic things first, otherwise slapping an LLC on top isn't going to help.Note: Asset Protection Onion Diagram - what, when, and at what cost one should implement in terms of asset protection - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-onion-diagram-v2 e.