They don't want to tie up money in long term, illiquid investments, for fear they may need to access that capital sooner.6.

Property taxes have gone up a bit, but so has insurance-all the little bits add up over time.

The bid/ask spread will close the gap, but you will not see 2018 prices again.

I would meet people in your market in person, look up agents that are doing a lot of deals, I would go to meetups, and I would be networking in your market like a madman to get people that you can do a deal with! 

.- One SFR had a tenant just move out, another is going through an eviction, so with half of the portfolio vacant, it's decision time.I'm trying to decide whether to sell them as a portfolio (at least the 3 Georgia ones as a portfolio, Iowa would probably have to be sold separately), or get the other 2 empty, fix them up and sell them all to retail homebuyers. 

We just closed on a $9,000,000 deal yesterday because our broker knew what kind of assets we like to buy.

(I'm thinking for general banking, checking, savings, etc.)I've been banking with Chase, and am having a nightmare of a time closing CDs upon maturity.

This is never accomplished in hard money loans and some may feel this adds more risk to the lender not having interest paid as you go, I argue that not having to come up with that monthly interest payment reduces the amount of capital needed for that project total and there by reduces the loan to value needed which helps both parties.

the unit might worth close a $1M. 

A new escrow is being created at 9k at closing (I don’t understand why but it is happened).