What will change is instead of clicking to "get an agent now" and zillow/realtor selling that to a Buyers agent, they will be contacting us directly, the listing agents. 

Looking ahead, have a knowledgeable mentor, investor or inspector look at some of these properties, ideally with you in person.  

So you are ways ahead of where I was when I was 18, that's for sure.

Cheers to your journey ahead!

Add a "Long Term Stay Policy", so a long-term guest would need to cancel a month ahead.  

Go ahead and be willing to put in the money toward a good contractor if you're not doing the work yourself.

This is a head game like non-other, depending on your level of experience.

I want tenants that pay on time and take good care of the property...... other than that I could not care less what their political views areUnless those displays are damaging your property in some way/shape/form, leave them aloneGo ahead and put it in your lease...... tell your tenants what the can/cant believe politically.... see how that goes.... hope you have a good attorneyWow... have we really come to this??

This is one of the better new investor posts I have read in a while because you know to stay in your day job and earn money to invest and you are also way ahead of the curve thinking about syndication (as close to passive as you can get) over flipping (don't do that with friends).Your job for the next months would be to go to every meetup locally that you can and read books focused on what you are thinking about first.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.