To summarize my research of the self sufficiency test, 75% of the gross rental income for all units (even owner-occupied) must be greater than the monthly mortgage payment.Some math: ($5700 * 0.75) = $4275, which is less than $4853 mortgage payment => FAILSeems that purchase price must come down in order for the loan to be underwritten. 

Perhaps you are good with a hammer, or marketing, website design, flyers, bandit signs, summarizing or reviewing books, podcasts, blogging, offering someone a ride to a Meetup, bring snacks, pick up someone’s tab. 

Since some of the regulations and requirements can be confusing, Logical Property Management (LPM) hascreated this document to summarize the options for a foreign investor.

Not always true.To summarize, you would have a lot of moving parts, do you have the time and can you avoid the stress?  

"Buy assets, not liabilities and use other people's money to do it" summarizes about 30% of his books. 

Here's how I'd summarize them:Invest where the economy is good and people are moving: Outside of a few metropolis in the northern tier states, the population has long been moving south.  

I have summarized most of what everyone said here and read some additional content from books and backed up all of the theories by running some financial model calculations. 

I challenged myself to read and summarize 2 books by Brandon - both done.

@Cathie Kovacs @Gita Faust  If I summarize the PM transactions in my books, should I be asking my PMs to document expenses in a particular way? 

But to summarize, I would like to start with more passive than active, but the level of active will depend on the type of work.