He even paid for his own survey (I saw the surveyor working shortly after our discussion), and then he left a natural buffer area between us and his new homes. 

Naturally I was skeptical at first, but I decided to purchase my first couple of rentals to see for myself how things would work out.

My advisor wants me to put it in the market naturally.

Generally depending on the size of a transaction and the nature, a past business relationship needs to have existed and the lender does not make any other loans as a business venture.

It is not in my nature to go out and give bad reviews, but I feel obligated to warn people about a group based in SoCal who sell rehabbed and rented properties in Alabama.

Seabrook happens to be one of those interesting phenomenon in regards to that location because it was essentially one guy came in and started developing it and leveraged really beautiful natural elements of it.

After my wallow, I had become all but desensitized to the panic, it was just over-load for me so my natural instinct is to just turn off that "care-about-it" switch and just accept what was to come will come, and i set out, without a clue what the heck i was gonna do.

You are on right path and getting sage advice from forum.

From all I read, that's the natural evolution of people's RE investment journeys. 

No thought to the destructive nature of what a low rate would cause.