Good negotiating skills, knowledge, flexibility and loyalty.

Washer and dryer inclusion may get you an extra $25-$50 a month, but you'd have to check what your competitors are offering as many apartments offer in-home and/or on-site laundry.You can also consider LED lighting, pet rent, storage rental as other ways to add value and increase rental income.

Ever since than i was sold on real estate, and i think it will help that i have had various construction jobs in the past giving me some general knowledge on home improvement and such.

To my knowledge, you wouldn't be able to use that item as an unacceptable condition to back out of the contract and get your earnest money back if it had been clearly listed.

I too am looking into virtual wholesaling but probably need more knowledge on the ins-and-outs of wholesaling itself.

I don't think the market compensates you enough for "newness" vs. the extra cost and complexity of building.There was a good article on Bloomberg about this last year that's worth reading to get a sense of the bigger economic forces/trends involved in this, America Needs Small Apartment Buildings.

I’m a highly motivated newbie investor, I would like to network with hopes of finding a mentor in the CT area or any market that is just to get some knowledge on getting started on a fast track process to retirement with multifamily, duplex etc investing.

We lose that extra summer rental cash, but we have the security of the full year lease.Feel free to reach out with any questions!

I am currently learning and soaking up as much knowledge as I can.Do you have any good books/podcast/videos that are good with helping me get started with my first Investment property?

Maybe the extra 3.65% spread between the two options isn't worth the risk of not being able to hit the extra $50/m.Just taking a quick glance at the Cleveland Heights demographic information by biggest concern is the 8.6% population decline between 2000 and 2014 and the depreciation of real estate in the area.