You will incur more lending costs but you will only be in the first loan for 6 months.

Further, I had negotiated 12 months interest reserve; they cut that to 3 months.  

I’d put 20% down on a SFR that will rent for around $1800-$2000/month.

The data plans are reasonable ($50/month) and the service seems like it would be more reliable through storms and outages. 

I am in Milwaukee, very hot rental market.Whenever you have an issue like this, think with an XLS and project dollars, for example:- 2 months lost rent: 2 x $2000- 5% lower purchase price: $15,000 

We have trades we use on jobs and know what they will charge which is often considerably less than what Joe Homeowner would pay for the same job . . . the trades know we will be using them again and again. 

I found it researching after many months.

All of that took about 6 months. 

There is absolutely no buy and hold market in this though seeing as the jungle takes it back within 6 months if you don't do anything with it. 

There are a lot of good meetups for real estate investors in the area that would be good to grow your network and learn from others that are and have been in your shoes as a new investor, message me and I can share on some specific monthly meetups.Also sharing some multifamily data, this is Boston proper so it has an interesting trend compared to the rest of Massachusetts.