Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

7) Home Insurance: make sure you understand what is and is not covered.

People who makes payment on time and every time understand the importance of building a strong credit profile.

Understanding the law can help you decide what strategy you will use for wholesaling.

Understand your area some; how is inventory, how is DOM, what is sale to list price?

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

The GRID meetup in Edwardsville (also mentioned above by Rich Groves) is new but I understand it's drawing lots of folks. 

Thing is, you need to understand it's going to a difficult way to earn a living.

I understand that most "Dips" don't last that long when you zoom out, as long as I can withstand the storm when it does come, then i'm good.

I understand that rents will go up over time and my mortgage payment will pay down the principal, but it seems like investing the $1.43mil into rental properties and/or a low fee US stock market fund may work out better for me.