Hi @Paul Baldwin,Thank you for your post and for considering a property from Five Stream Ventures!

Hey everyone, hopefully you are all enjoying your summer. Just wanted to pass this along as thoughts on STR's. With the world back to full business so are event shows and expos. Every major and minor city for the most...

If your rental still has a fuse box, it may be worth considering an upgrade.

Hi all,
I often come across performing and non-performing notes and would love to better understand what different buyers are looking for.
If you're actively buying, feel free to drop your criteria or DM me — I'd li...

Creative financing usually refers to a financing method that's outside the box. 

Also with that said as sort of A bonus thought if you follow such A philosophy with rental investing you could theoretically take A bit of Dave Ramsey's Philosophy and use the income streams of multiple paid off residential property's to buy outright A commercial property and access the hight rent potential immediately.

And like Don says above is so true most borrowers starting out go through the progression he states so by the time they realize either they dont have enough capital or experience or the deals are not in the main stream lender buy box, our typical scenario is we get a call on Monday in a panic  I am going to lose this deal if I don't close by Friday :) And that is my specialty and more complicated scenarios like foreclosures and sub markets the big lenders wont work in. etc etc.

I pull my lists personally using prop stream or just the tax records using my NJ license since it's free (Remine).

It seems like properly wrapping the doors and boxes would be a royal PITA. 

The advocacy side of our RE business actually want to connect WITH tenants who may qualify to purchase the property being sold or the tenant want help to purchase elsewhere (maybe they don't like the home they're renting but could use some help in moving on).I usually represent BUYERS so tenant who I can get qualified to purchase is a never ending stream of clients.