We were in way over our heads but still ended up making a few bucks.  

Door Hangers work my Dad did this in the 60s and 70s he bought his own printing press and guess who ran it after school.then he would go down to the salivation army Sat morn at 6 am and pick up those exiting the facility.. these guys would put out about 500 flyers a day for 20 bucks.. you could do it with highschool kids today. he put out 20,000 a week.. and then the 1% rule followed  200 leads  then 20 sales..

It was an easy thousand bucks in her pocket.Is this common at all?

The house is solid, with no nightmarish issues costing us big bucks, or rather, nothing that I couldn't handle myself, with my ever-expanding renovation background, for basically peanuts.

@Malik Batchelor I would suggest getting the Driving for dollars App for $20 bucks a month and save yourself a TON of time and just input the address and save it to a list you build on the APP and then BOOM there is all the owner contact info with even a Phone number.

Milwaukee is not a hothead of employment.

If I rent out the last unused bedroom, I will cut my out of pocket expenses down even more (which was my goal when buying this house to stop renting) and I would end up only paying for utilities and a few hundred bucks of the mortgage.The reason I haven't rented it out yet though is that I'm concerned it'll force one of the tenants to want to move out due to having to share a bathroom with one more adult.

This might cost you a couple hundred bucks for the time with the accountant, but it will pay dividends when you do your taxes  Connect QB to your bank and download the transactions.  

Go to the Milwaukee Real Estate Investor Association meeting on 8/14, in Brookfield. 

@John Clark Sorry not for the Air Force we did away with the Buck Sgt E-4 in the last century (1990s) E-4 is SrA for us.