Here's a site that I found tremendously helpful in deciphering the overly complicated tax situation here: http://memphis.about.com/od/midsouthliving/qt/propertytax.htmFor my property in Shelby Co, the rates end up being .85% for city taxes and 1.0925% for county taxes.  

In some areas, three blocks makes a tremendous difference, which is also fair warning against overly optimistic valuations of comps.

He seemed like a really great guy and wrote several books about how he accumulated tremendous wealth by utilizing the same strategy in Orange County.  

While being here in my spare time ive read several books on investing and it has sparked my interest tremendously!

Hey Christopher,I don't have a book recommendation but I have a journal that I use that has helped me tremendously with time management.

If someone could provide a solution where I could still obtain financing terms on a 30 yr fixed with 20-30% down this would be a tremendous relief.

House-hacking is absolutely correct, except that I am married, and have had tremendous difficulty selling that to the lady.For now, we're starting to do flips on the SFR side, and I partition some of the winnings into the buy-and-hold portfolio.

Eventually with hard work and searching you will find something where the numbers work in your favor.Other piece of advice is you must have tremendous patience when trying to purchase REO properties.

I'm having tremendous success with it. 

As to the barn - we've done a tremendous amount of work on it, and will be finishing it off by repainting, etc.