I then look to grow my fund into a $100M fund within 10 years to parlay the growth into the banking industry.In my self storage business, I am focusing on acquiring an additional 40 self storage facilities in the next 10 years with the goal of either taking Social Self Storage public or being acquired by a self storage REIT.In my real estate investment business, I will be growing my portfolio to include an additional 500+ units in the next 5 years to hedge against inflation and to balance my lending business.In my wholesale business, I am currently working on automating the Chicago and Indianapolis markets to completely remove myself from the business within the next 18 months and will be scaling up to 10 properties sold per month per market.I am always looking for solid long-term business relationships, be it with experienced real estate investors who are in need of capital, equity partners looking to get a solid return on their money, strategic joint venture partners who are growth oriented, or foreign investors looking to hedge their U.S. currency holdings against inflation through the acquisition of U.S. cash flowing assets.Shoot me a line and lets start making some money together!

Richmond is showing all the signs of growth we're used to in a rapidly appreciating market (read New York). 

If you don't fix it now you'll certainly have to disclose later and pony up for it one way or the other.Knowing that you have sewage leakage into the nearby soil could put you at risk... and it's just wrong.Good chance that the tree roots may not come into play in the future... think of pruning a tree, the new growth shoots off in other directions and prefers the path of least resistance.  

All that being said, you have a rental property in your old residence, why not get a rental near where you work since you think it's got potential for growth.

Old growth wood is stronger and harder than managed growth timber of today.  

Remember also that you can become a private lender and grow the IRA from interest paid by RE investors who borrow your funds on short term loans (6 months or so) to acquire and fix up properties.

Sellers are touting 4 to 5% rent growth and 3% vacancy but it is a bubble right now and not sustainable.

I’m not looking to grow the biggest business in my area, I’m looking to build a nice sustainable business for myself and few other employees, as well as focus on real estate because I really enjoy doing it

I would be a first time investor but I believe this is a city that will appreciate in value due to its proximity to the Florida keys / Miami and with the massive explosion of growth in Homestead, Fl, I think its only a matter of time before Florida City booms.

Glad to see some solid job growth.