The 3 and 4 BR units on the other side of town were not experiencing this. 

What I would tell you is that as we built our portfolio we continued working our full time corporate (cubicle) jobs until we had 20 units (self-managing them along the way).

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

"@ Frank ChinIn this specific instance, it is undeniable that a house was built on that property more than 15 years ago simply based on Google Earth data, but you can see by the county assessor records that the house on the subject property was built in 1950 and then the property encroaching was built over the property line shortly thereafter, in 1951.@ Matt Devincenzo,From the info in your post, the land does not seem to have officially been taken by AP.

My 17-year-old daughter is still in high school, but she saved up $20,000 in 14 months as a waitress in a town of 10,000.

Very cool thank you for the post.I have thought about a laundry mat with 3 apartments on top in my town, I even know the lot I want to put it on. 

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

The house has 5 units; however, it is only zoned by the town as a 4-family.

Even if you have an excellent team built with plenty of trust, it's really difficult to do this without having lots of face time and rapport building. 

For example I sold 2 properties in the same town that was more than 30 minutes away, just because of the travel time to get there and return.