@Jennifer LexonTo find a move-in ready property in Cleveland, Indiana, Kansas City, Memphis, and Pittsburgh, consider factors like affordable real estate prices, steady economic growth, strong rental markets, diverse neighborhoods, and diverse economies.

Do i need to be licensed in the state where the real estate is located for the mortgage one is buying?

I've got a few other real estate investments.

The 5% is more of an industry rule of thumb, 10% is what I try to do, but I am more conservative and don't take any Distributions or Draws from my Real Estate.

The real question is can your sales support the rent? 

We have used Yardi that turned into Breeze (yuk) and now looking at Real Page that looks great but no cost info yet. 

This assumes the market rent for the unit I will be moving into.My goals from entering real estate are 1. add diversification in my investments (right now heavily invested in stocks) and 2. house hack, so that tenants pay part of the mortgageIn my current market, I have two options: a. buy older houses, renovate, bring the rent to market --> this will cashflow, but needs a lot of time investment which I don't haveb. buy turnkey properties: --> renovated and already occupied by tenants but may not be cash flow positive.I found a property that's type B.

I lived in it for a few years but during that time I wanted to get into real-estate investing.

National banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders and the like.

Hi All, I have been studying markets in real estate investing for some time now.