I invite seasoned investors to share their experience buying their first 2-4 unit properties. here are some questions to base your response/story1) how did you find your first property ?

Home inspections was a next step for me as I get older and my body is starting to get tired.

I think seasonality is starting earlier, but if people are starting this early, ahead of inventory bottoming, we could have a pretty crazy spring. 

@Kyle Trotman If you purchased with a hard money loan conventional lenders will require extensive seasoning to utilize the new appraised value for cash out. 

We also have shorter seasoning periods than most for cash out.  

Luckily Airbnb roommates are much better because they are gone a lot and you can take breaks / just rent in high seasons, etc.

Bonus: So, eventually I had some tenants get on board that were older and not tech savvy so there was going to be no way to get the to use RentRedi anyways, so I decided to cancel. 

Like Buffett says, the older he gets the better he gets at saying NO! 

Unfortunately, this problem waste a lot of my time that could be spent on other investments.I have used the same tax professional for many years and he is very educated, but also much older than me and it's hard for me to understand all the reasons he has expressed why is better to put the rental on my personal tax returns.

Your income needs to be 100x it and you need to invest 10% of your net(so less than $5mil) annually in structured product type investing incl RE, let it season for 3-5 years, re-invest the first bit of profits and by year 8-10 you should be comfortable.$500k annual income is alot for your average folk, but it's not "retire me" income at all.