I DO like to carry a note back, which gives a stream of income and reduces capital gains taxes from the sale.  

In my personal opinion many people latch onto W2 income for far longer than necessary. From a viewpoint of maintaining W2 income to qualify for traditional financing I can understand it however when the ball is offici...

Other than school at night, I have a ton of free time during the days and want to design a permanent income stream and build a real estate portfolio.

I spent the last couple of years discouraged from real estate investing, but after re-reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” again I want to get back on the FI trail by building cash flow streams.

All, can you recommend any types of movies, where one of the topics are life around the Real estates investing matters on US market?

I was thinking this might be a way to reduce my maintenance exposure or recoup costs by creating a 2nd revenue stream with future tenants since none of the properties are large enough to justify coin operated machines.

@Christina Savinar  Yes, any property even somewhat near a stream could fall into a flood zone. 

One of my goals is to have a second revenue stream so how should I go about utilizing and leveraging these two properties?

What a story.4 deaths - one after another.You should call Holywood and make a movie out of that story  - "The Cursed Trailer"Maybe that's how you'll make money from it (LOL)Thanks for sharing though.

But if you buy into the idea that it takes multiple touches to get a lead contact you, then it is FAR less expensive to do this on FB than it is using an endless stream of postcards.