I just can't imagine where the heck the air comes from because when I. see that I check the vents - nothing.Main level - A lot of the cold is bad windows.

Imagine 1x6 spanned 12 feet with nothing in the middle to support it.

In my 20 years of navigating the world of real estate, I've stumbled through just about every mistake you can imagine.

Imagine the cash flow I could have if I desired (my cash flow is not great because I extract value regularly and because I prefer my return to be in tax free or tax deferred sources and cash flow you get taxed on yearly).Case Schiller used to (maybe still does) publish a residential market performance ranking since 2000.  

It’s tax free cash that pours in monthly.

We started with a single family home and rented the rooms to friends because it was impossible to get a duplex at the time with all the investors pouring in at the time.

Another reason to never, never buy a rental in a state that is tenant friendly.I imagine that the Govt will provide housing vouchers for these illegals (similar to Section 8) But if/when they do not pay their portion of the rent, or more likely act up and violate the lease (having zero concept of US code and law, they will be near impossible to remove from your units.....

It doesn't look like anyone said Jacksonville is really competitive, although I would imagine there's a decent amount of activity there as well.

(with there being 10 change of hands between 2000 and 2009, I can't imagine that every title examiner screwed up.) 

Dont suppose I'll get it...again, i've never done a real estate deal other than purchasing my house over a decade ago. without experience there's just so much i dont know.networking is a sore spot, i'm just not a people person. thats one reason i look at real estate. since i plan to have any properties managed, i wont have to deal with a lot of people. i imagine you'll scold me for this but whatever. i'm never going to be a people person and thats set in stone. it's something i have to work around not overcome.It seems I always get to the same point with real estate where I take the safe and easy route and leave my $ invested in the stock market. the thing that appeals to me about re, and i'm more focusing on rentals, non b&b, is steady income with an appreciating underlying asset. whereas the market is up and down. i can get totally safe 5% from short term bonds, but i know my principle is withering away from inflation (i dont believe the gubt bogus 3% cpi). with a rental house i could get 5% rental income, and the house will appreciate ~5% a year. that's a huge difference. the other thing i'm somewhat interested in is flips, but same story there, i just dont have the knowledge, and all the reading this forum or watching yt's in the world only gets to the surface as it's all airy generalities.