Quote from @Arron Paulino: Has anyone ran into stagnant properties that just take forever to sell?

Once you have all that handled then you go into contract and then you hire a civil to prep your pre plat and then you can talk to an architect on plans.. townhouses unless your doing something wild are pretty vanilla builds. 

I'm currently jumping head first into this community and would love to learn from more seasoned investors. 

I'm breaking this into phases where I am learning for a couple months, to include,  speaking with others with experience and then "going for it".

The PM sell it to the tenant as a service, but these are things the PM should be doing anyway, like fixing stuff and being avail when things break. 

For everyone thinking about getting into real estate investing, I recommend spending at least 6 months educating yourself through websites likes this and its family of books and podcast, other real estate podcast, books at the library, and local meetups.

Yardi can definitely feel tricky to break into because they don’t offer a lot of open public training — most of the real training happens inside companies once you’re hired.

Accumlated a few good rentals there, then expended into AZ (bad investment) and ended up living in CA. 

I would look into the laws in your state regarding asbestos.Generally asbestos is not a problem unless it is disturbed.

The biggest breakthrough moment for me was realizing it's easier to turn equity into cashflow than it is to turn cashflow into meaningful equity.