I wanted to try my hand in self managing for the rest of this year, mainly for the experience aspect.

Most deals are at 0 or negative cashflow if your paying a manager and properly accounting for cap/ex.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Natalie did a great job explaining the technical aspects of deducting BPCON travel costs, but her post assumes that an investor already operates their business, which you do not.

This would then have a negative impact on your credit score and could make it drop significantly.

There are actually several aspects to investing, so it depends on which aspect you mean.

Big chunk of your life insurance premium goes to pay insurance salesman commissions so you have negative return from day one.Pay less taxes: contributions to an IRA are tax-deductible so it will help you pay less in taxes.

In the end there are a lot of negatives and very little positive. 

Part of the job of a PMC is to own every aspect of property management and to see things through.

Or are you still going to be cash flow negative?