Do you self manage your units?  

I have been under property management for one of my units for the past two years, and planned to self manage at the end of our contract term.

I wanted to live in one of the units.

I'm not sure about where you would find internships but maybe you could work as an assistant at a real estate brokerage, a real estate investment, property management, or inspection company.  

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Looking forward to making new connections. learning from others and scaling my real estate portfolio. I've been investing for 15+ years and have a reasonably strong track record of personally acquirin...

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If I sold the unit today, I will walk away with $100K in profit after agent commission etc.Given I cannot offset rental losses ($26K) against W2 (not a RE professional), any advice re: thoughts below:1) sell the rental in the next 3 years (under the 5 year and 2 as a primary occupant) to avoid Capital Gain.

Or if it blew a tree over on the house/fence/AC unit it adds up pretty quickly.

You need two years of income history or recent college degree with employment, and about 4% cash of the sales price in checking/savings for 1-2 units.

I'm interested in single families all the way up to 3-400 unit apartment communities.