@Barry PekinThanks for the advice I’m downloading the book now!

As long as I plan to hold longer than 3 years, pre-paid PMI is more cost effective.I recommend going to Chris' website and downloading his house hacking spreadsheet. 

We all have individual computers and files end up getting downloaded several places if someone is working from a different computer.

I think they charge $4 per page to download/print deeds.

Or you can download my estimating templates I have in my Biggerpockets fileplace:Simple Estimate SpreadsheetDetailed Estimating SpreadsheetThere are other Estimating Softwares available as well which can help you manage the Estimating process as well...#5 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalkthrough potential rehab properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.#6 Get Your First Rehab ProjectYou can practice all you want, but ultimately you will learn the most about estimating rehab costs by actually rehabbing a house.

The sheets will be 'live' until Saturday morning, after that I am turning off the 'share' links, so download now if you want them.Data history is everything.

If you are in Canada, each province has their own standard lease forms to use (which you can download and use).

Theres a reason why they have opened there.... you will want to follow their trends7.Price to Rent ratio: Go to zillow.com/research/data get the median home value for your town by downloading the spreadsheet by city. 

Go here to see the zoning for the property address: http://property.nola.gov/ then download the short term rental handbook: https://nola.gov/short-term-re... and look up your zoning to see if it's even legal for that unit to get a permit.

I downloaded  the "Property Manager Rent Tracker" app on my phone, it seems pretty good but doesn't have an option to run background checks. 1) What Property Management Program do you use in 2020?