Unless of course, you want to perform a BRRRR strategy in which case you could do that too. 

Of course home owners have no issue just put a plug in your home .. 

Is it worth joining for educational and training purposes? 

It sounded pretty good, but of course I wanted to check for reviews.  

This can be a city or neighborhood.We manage a lot of Class C properties in the City of Detroit, so previous evictions are common.We typically do NOT allow within the last 3 years and we want to see stable employment, income and no other major credit issues since.For Class B rental we're looking for no evictions in last 5 years.Class A, would be at least 7 years.Of course, there are exceptions to all of the above for extenuating circumstances the applicant is willing to provide acceptable documentation for.

You now will have a better understanding of syndication than anyone taking a guru course.   

Even if I was in the middle of a big city, I would look at train station routes away from the city.3.  

Of course you want to pay attention to market cycles etc.

You will start getting pitched on courses for out of state investors when David Greene's book has a great rundown.Like they said above, go in-person, meet people there.

We did a lot of Krav and weapons training as well.