I’m new to real estate investing, aside from a handful of books I’ve recently finished—one of which (BRRRR by David Greene) led me here.

My advice is simple always be honest with your clients!

In fact, I don't know of any system that allows smartphone access without Wifi. and, I did some simple math, one refrigerator walking out the door in the middle of the night and it's $1,500 or squatters shooting drugs and it's major headache time.

This is a good question.I found that meetups are kind of like you described not much really happens there and for sure REIAs and their monthly meeting kind of the same people talking about the same thing then bring in ( at least what i have seen with the PDX reia) folks that are presenting on things that worked decades ago.. and want to sell their stuff for a few grand.For me personally the best networking hands down was SF Bay Area events  San Jose Reiaand LA  FIBI events.folks in those markets are very real estate centric and generally more experienced and in San Jose so many tech folks that have done really really well.. maybe not in RE but have done great in TECH and have quite a bit of bandwidth for investments..

On the other hand, the croissant are cheaper, local and work pretty darn well.

The first thing the technician did was take a toilet tank cover off and run his hand across the bottom.

We've been reading everything we can get our hands on, listening to podcasts, and spending time every morning reading and learning from the forums here at BP. 

I like to keep things as simple as possible, but I was excited to dig into this one because knowledge is power, and the better we understand these things, the more we can use them to our advantage in real estate.So here’s what’s happening—your CPA is basically saying you’re already showing a loss on your taxes because of all the expenses that came with closing, insurance, HOA fees, etc.

I would love to get my hands on some fixer uppers in Baltimore, but it's not in the cards right now.

It is very simple and cheaper to set up the LLC in NJ vs NY ($50 vs $200 when going on the state website) what is still an open question is I also need an operating agreement for the LLC once set up, wondering if that is also free as part of just getting the LLC set up on the state website or if I need to use a lawyer or a legalzoom type of service to do that.