All are good.I'd be happy to connect and help anyway I can. 

When I first started investing in real estate, I discovered how important it was to identify and capitalize on the right opportunities.

Before you pay for inspections, estoppel, etc. go look at the property yourself.

Both the realtor we used for the first cabin AND the loan officer encouraged us to ditch the two bedrooms and “go bigger since we had access to so much 1031 cash.”We ended up doing it all without a realtor.

We plan to pooling our money for down payment & closing costs.

If you haven't already, try going off market, driving around neighborhoods that would be of interest to you and finding ones that fall into your criteria (your agent should be able to help you as well).

Not only should we be using a professioanl photographer, but you need to coach them on which pictures you want taken.

Best way to learn an area is to drive/walk around as much as you can.

It is possible to go broke by buying good deals.

I'm going to be taking some time to get to know people in my market as I kind of want to start local in Las Vegas.