No PM is not collecting rent, as per PM they are charging me the regular monthly fees because they are following up with the lawsuit with the tenant.Thank you for your input.H

Quote from @Richa Wardhan: Regular lender financing, we have paid off 70% of our mortgage on the primary residence so we were loaned money without any issue. 

I love audio books and listen to them regularly when doing mindless work tasks or on walks.

I'm not saying you'll be working a lot all the time, but you'll regularly have late-night questions from people checking in, for example.

Dont go to the regular retail realtor who only deals with FHA or conventional mortgages like 80%+ of the people.

I've bought a ton of homes pre-foreclosure and at auction, happy to be a resource on that stuff, plus we just launched Bid Pirate, which is the one place online for NH, where you can see all the upcoming foreclosure auctions in one spot - you can learn a lot from the regulars at the auctions........ get after it, sister!

I also advise participating in regular meetings with them.

On paper the cheap houses look great, but the reality is they are harder to manage, have higher turn over and cost a lot more time and money.Buying before you retire is a good idea because once you retire, your ability to borrow money is going to decrease as you don't have a regular income from a job.As you want to fix houses up, why not buy a house that needs a bit of work, live in it while doing the renos and then move when you sell it. 

I didn't even have $1000 saved at that time and I was really just thinking of going the regular route of going through the banks and just save up as much as I could for a down payment on my first investment home to rent out.

Old investors like me only invest in the subscription for pro; we don't buy courses or books (actually, I own probably 20 of their books) regularly.