Quote from @V.G Jason: Brandon Turner's advice is old, outdated, and for the most part not relative to today's market.

I wish I started to look into RE at that age! 

Credit scores are a reflection of someone's ability to learning and understanding the rules of the game and haveing the discipline to play by them.If you already have good credit, already pay everything on time (autopay), then increaseing your limits will probably help you the most, because it gets your utilization down, ideally under 10%.Higher hanging fruits are average credit and account age (just have to wait for that I guess) and inquiries, which are sometimes unavoidable as real estate investors.  

Greetings all,I'm still a relatively new investor but looking to diversify my investing strategies.

I agree with the majority: the wisest move is to live in an affordable market where your dollar will go 3x as far.I didn't give any advice, I just laid out a viewpoint.To address your point, does it matter how much the PITI is, or how much the PITI is relative to the property income?

In this case, anticipate the LLC that owns the real estate to be listed as a defendant alongside the Builder in the event of a construction related liability incident. 

We're all about building trust and good relations here.

The main property will be my primary residence.My biggest question is, what kind of foundation would you use, (that is to code and will pass inspection/permits in Charlottesville) that is either relatively easy DIY or cheap to outsource.

I have this theory that basically the stock market can grow faster than the fundamentals more so than housing, reason being when people put money into their 401k or whatever they are just throwing money in, not looking at p/e or whatever, the stock market is in part just an index of Americans excess savings plus it’s a unstated policy of the government that stocks go up, where as housing people are obviously very very aware of how much thier monthly payments is/ how much rent is, plus it seems that is actually a push to lower housing prices at least relative to inflation.

Conversely, when property prices are low, rental demand decreases, causing rental rates to remain relatively flat or fall.How can you identify cities that are likely to have significant and sustained appreciation and rent growth?