Doesn't mean they give terrible advice but I find it often comes from a place of fear or inexperience and discourages action taking rather than encouraging action taking.  

When someone like this gets a notice on their door, disappears, and then you renovate and rent the unit afterwards, the whole process really encourages the others to choose the right as you give them to see the right.

Either way - we welcome folks from that subreddit, and encourage folks on here to check it out as yet another source of valuable information. 

I would encourage you to find a way to purchase another investment before you leave College Station.

.- OP, often also a shill for guru, or in some cases a legitimate but misguided newbie who was already sold on the program and came here for validation and encouragement to spend $10s of thousands on guru program gets ANGRY at BP community for pointing out obviously correct advice to not spend $40K (good fricken grief!!)

Love the encouragement!

As a fellow member of NCREIA (North Carolina Real Estate Investors Association), I strongly encourage you, as a new investor, to consider attending one of our monthly meetings.

As older generations pass down wealth, younger people may find themselves in a position to afford homes, counteracting some of the affordability issues caused by market conditions.There are definitely quite a few incentives encouraging home ownership.

Hey Brian,Thanks for the encouragement and advice!

.: Quote from @Dominic Rosato: I work in leasing/property management in NJ, and we encourage most of our landlords to require these two main criteria:1) Household annual income > 40x the monthly rent2) Credit score above 680In addition, we screen their credit report to verify there are no red flags (rental collections, high CC balances, etc.), as well as previous two months of bank statements / investment accounts, whichever they'd like to provide (can they pay rent if they lost their job?).