EXCELLENT.... If you don't mind me asking, are all these residential properties....
Sorry for the late response brotha. But this site acts crazy when I am in china. Some threads I can't even get into at times.
An older sista who is a friend of my family has always been a mentor to me. She is one of these self made black millionaires who invested in real estate. She lost everything after the economy tanked in 9/11, rebuilt her shyt and most everything in 2008 and rebuilt her shyt again. Anyway she would harp on me when I was in college to make sure I got some real estate when i got out of college and got a real job. She harped on me to not be silly and buy trinkets and cars to give my money right back to white folks.
So the first thing I did when I graduated was get with my cousin and we went in on a house in Chicago. A foreclosure and fixed it up. Just with the idea to say we could do it and have something like what Dave Chapelle said his farm was. A fukk Hollywood place that was paid for. Our two unit home was a fukk corporate America in case they laid us off or fired us we could have somewhere to stay.
Then we rented out the units in the house and my wife and I took our money to buy anothet house and fix it up.
But all in all half my properties are rental and the other half I have family staying in and they just break me off with some money. So like I have a small place in my wife's home town in Mississippi. I let my niece through marriage stay there who is in school. I just tell her give me a couple hundred a month (cause i want her to understand that you have to pay something in the real world) and don't destroy the house. This also stops folks from breaking in and stealing shyt.
Which is really important if you got a house say in a rough area in Chicago. Jokers will break in your house and steal all the copper pipes.
I ain't no big Trump tyc00n real estate dude. Just a regular brotha trying to leave something to my family and actually invest in some of these black communities. Cause man you would be amazed at how many folks own house in these communities who aren't black, are slum lords and treat the tenants like shyt.
But it is a tough business managing a property. But I try to help these tenants especially these brothas and sistas who trying to do something and are hard on their luck. But some times folks will try to take advantage of you.