. $60,000 repair requests.Also, they use independent contractors who will do what they can to replace what they can get away with charging the warranty companies.  

It is our hope to gain financial independence by house hacking and by gradually building up a “real estate empire,” as we jokingly call it.

It is our hope to gain financial independence by house hacking and by gradually building up a “real estate empire,” as we jokingly call it.

You should be paying ~$400 for flood insurance.I'm an independent agent that sells insurance to home owners and investors who buy and flip.

I want to build my financial runaway and really getting a jump start on finical independence is the goal.

I've used an independent contractor for years at two personal residences in Sherman Oaks who is reasonable on cost and does a great job.

For STARTERS we don't know if we should open an LLC together and start to buy properties with private money via LLC OR if we should each get conventional loans independently (tenants in common) with an operating agreement in place.

National credit tenants or independent tenants? 

Playing it out, we retire, start taking distributions from the IRA, the property is paid off (or not), and all the income that's been accumulating over the years is sitting there -- still accumulating from rents coming in.   Depending

Most importantly, does any of these submarkets have any economic anchors  like state government, major universities, major health care centers, or manufacturers that are independent of the economy like military suppliers that employs most of the residents of that submarket?