My portfolio is approximately 1,300 units, made up primarily of single family rental portfolios with some multifamily properties, spread across several states.I’m spending more time in Tucson as of late, and I am starting to expand my operation into this area, thus I would like to meet established investors, lenders, agents, and anyone involved in rental housing or acquisitions.

And if I didn't understand the financing piece of real estate then I could have gotten stuck with properties with really high interest rates that could have made many of my properties negatively cash flow for a long time.

TIA I do want to chime in with a couple of mistakes I've made with partnerships I went into.

The first construction project after college that I managed went really well, and there I am thinking wow this is easy and the next three were extremely complex and made me realize “oh wow this is not as easy as I thought it was”.

Multifamily properties  are made up of smaller apartments — mostly 1BR or 2BR units.That usually means the tenant base is made up of students, young couples, or people in transition rather than stable long-term families.The issue I see is that this often leads to high tenant turnover, more maintenance, more management headaches, and ultimately less cash flow than what the spreadsheet shows.For those of you who own or manage  multifamily properties — how do you deal with this?

, pets stay FREE(0 bookings)Property C - Strict to FLEXIBLE Cancellation, pets stay FREE(11 bookings, 2 inquires)Property D - Control, no changes (STRICT cancellation, no pets)(1 inquiry)ALL properties I made sure "opportunities" where near max (office space with a comfy chair, etc)It's really interesting that I opened up pets to 3 of them, 2 of them I added flexible cancellation and the ones with flexible cancellation SOARED.Had nothing to do with me as a host, or my properties.

When you get the lease and estoppel, read them slowly and carefully.You want to know:How much Section 8 actually pays versus how much the tenant paysWhen the lease actually endsWho pays which utilitiesWhen the last inspection wasWhether the seller made any “side deals” (you’d be surprised…)Those little details matter a LOT with voucher tenants.2.

My agent has a strong network who made the introductions to a full team across lending, LLC set-up, insurance, home inspections very easy and they have all largely been very responsive.

From postings on Zillow to automated responses to questionnaires and screening, etc, it has Made my leasing process a lot smoother!

@Barbara Johannsen @Barbara Johannsen we are waiting on your response to a bid you made on our assets.