Curious to see the positives/negatives of some of these other mentioned companies.

As a reminder, Madoff "had annual audits".Part of my DD, while I do ask if a company has audits and shares them with LPs, I also ask for FULL financials: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows for properties through partnership level items.  

I have owned my own construction company and have renovated many homes for other investors.

LTRs tend to be more hands off even if you do self-manage.Either way, you'll need to practice analyzing deals so that you don't buy a property that doesn't produce for you :) 

The total infrastructure project was a $50 Billion investment, all from private companies.

The 1031 X company has told me I can use the $130,000 towards the carriage house portion of the purchase and first must contact my CPA to write up a document saying how the PP of the entire new property will be split up as primary and investment property and 1031 x portion will only go towards CH.So far, so good.

So, using a loan means I can now leverage my money to produce more properties. 

This is what you should be doing in order to comply with fair housing laws too, treat everyone the same and have set company policies that you never deviate from for anyone. 

These larger wholesale companies are a joke.

Hey everyone,I am looking to rent out my first property, and am wondering what kind of criteria/questions I should have prepared when screening Property managers. In the long run I'd like to do the management myself, ...