I’m going to be looking for an intermediate rehab project in my first property, don’t want to tackle anything to crazy right off the bat.

@Cory SparksHey Cory,Maybe look to find a property that needs some work and you can force appreciation buy doing some rehab work yourself with your partner. 2 female friends of mine were able to find a distressed pre foreclosure, get and FHA loan, learn and tackle most of the renovations themselves and then rent out 2 units and live in the basement unit themselves.

We had some common threads though and it took several honest and really hard conversations to get to the point where we were ready to tackle real estate together, as a team.

Do the things that rejuvenate you and allow you to tackle the rest of life's challenges. 

While it is relatively new, we are working on a website called development-club.com which has articles aimed at tackling some of these issues.

Make sure your agent isn't afraid to do off market deals- many agents don't know how and are afraid to tackle those. 

You have to tackle it head on.

They simply throw them away because no one like spam. so that doesn't count!

As you get to your second, third, and fourth house hacks and gain more experience, you can will likely have the experience and financial means to tackle a rehab as well. 

On the Nigerian thing I have also seen China and other areas send spam e-mail with a legitimately wealthy person there they are impersonating.A quick way is to take the e-mail you get and copy it and then go to google.com and paste it.