Save every penny you make, live with room mates, drive a beat up truck, house hack distressed properties and spend all of your spare time DIY rehabbing them.

You may have to spend a few bucks to install a camera, and stipulate in  the lease they use only their can.

I'm spending at least 20-25 hours a week "managing" Suncoast Property Management. 

Trying to weed people out at local REI meetings to be possible mentors is also gamble and a huge time suck.

Of course not all markets are you going to spend 10k on furniture and then double your rents or more than double the rent as in our case.

One needs to understand how to check title on their own though.. spending 200 bucks on a title report your going to blow through a lot of 200.00s as I mentioned above not many actually go to sale.

I would like to use short term rentals to free up some of my time to spend with my growing family.I am interested in learning everything I can as I look for my first property.

It's updated every year and is the best $40 you'll spend as a Landlord.

And he lives right across the street from the project so spends NO money on commute ..

I wouldn't bet on either at this stage but if you like a gamble...