Both of them I own free and clear.

Feel free to reach out if you want to bounce ideas off someone who’s also getting their feet wet!

This will also allow you to avoid taxes on the sale.

If you can rent it for $2,000/month, after fees, taxes, and potential maintenance costs, you’d still make a decent passive income.

I learned so much from the course and PCS, and I'm claiming all of my cost on my taxes.

They are so tax beneficial! 

Second pro is that you get to lower your living expenses or live "rent free" by having your tenants pay for your mortgage payment.

If you were able to increase the value of the property significantly after the rehab, then you could bring the deal to a community bank  to refinance and take the hard money lender out.You keep all the equity and don’t have to file a partnership return for your annual tax return, which can be costly.  

So far I’ve just been doing free posting, no paid marketing.

I bought 14 houses basically for free by harvesting the equity in my houses by doing 5 cash out refis.