But once you start charging fees and collecting commissions that's where you cross that line ...

I wish you luck in acquiring more rental units and I am sure we will cross paths in the future!

Louis is block to block and that's literally true: one block can look run down with boarded up buildings, then you cross a street and every property is well-maintained.

I am a merchant marine, which gives me quite a bit of time off to work on REI projects.  

Marine working in my defense industry career which I have held for 12 years.  

I've been listening to podcast over the last year and reading to prepare myself for crossing over the line to real estate investing.

Granted, this would be worst case scenario and only a tragedy would foresee such events *fingers crossed*.Thanks, Chris

I was moving cross country on military orders and stayed in a hotel until closing.

I consider once you cross National to be C-.  

After a tour in Fallujah with the Marines I needed a change of pace and moved to Austin to start a business which I was able to sell (there's an NDA involved, so I won't go into too much detail) for enough money to buy a house that was way too large for me.