Can't afford much food, or feeding huge families. 

Along with the possibility of 2 units, for example one in main bedroom, one in open livingroom area.... it's also worth considering 2-zone (or more than 2 zone) units that have one outdoor unit feeding (via copper lines under home) multiple indoor units that can be controlled independently.  

A lot of landlords, myself included, run tenants through background check systems like TransUnion Smartmove before they let them move in, and never, ever rent to deadbeats with landlord-tenant judgments on their records, whatever story they try to feed me.So getting a judgment against a former tenant is how you turn around and stick it forever to a deadbeat who steals from you.

The rest of the Upstate feeds off Greenville dynamic growth.

Your money pays both agents commission, it pays for everything.Being commissioned based agents are inherently greedy, literally part of the job that they won’t admit to. benefits of using the listing broker- feeding the beast-listing agent wants both sellers and buyers commission and will fight for your deal over other offers even at a lower price because they make more $$$.If this is your first deal and you aren’t sure what you are doing or looking at it may be better to find an agent. if you are pretty familiar with the process it’s really no different who represents you as long as you can stand your ground and represent yourself if needed. 

@Jennifer Nowak, I recommend QuickBooks Online (at least Plus) because: 1) QBO can be set up/manipulated to track flips and rentals separately as well as each property and entity individually all under one subscription (Location = Entity; Class = Property; etc).2) QBO has a better bank feed system than other software due to their secure relationship with a ton of banks.

Your financial institutions already feed the IRS.Your tax person is the only person who may need your ssn.

That feeds into the second advantage: willingness to take more risk and their shareholders get this, since they only do this one thing, they don’t have to worry about messing up other parts of the business.

I would like to get some feed back on how some of you have handle the real state investing outside of state and how to handle property tax.  

You are doing something other than what you need to be doing because something in what you are using to procrastinate is feeding a need for you that isn’t being met by the actions you need to be taking to achieve.