Hey jake, i encourage you to fix your credit and save money before proceeding.

From what you're question indicates, I would highly encourage you to have a Realtor you trust, in your court, serving as your agent.

Tony, first off thank you for the encouragement and for taking the time to write on my post. 

The agency encouraged me to do renos that helped them rent at higher rates.

As I passed by runners who had slowed down and I gave them encouragement, they started to run again and passed me and got better times than me.  5.

Locally, (I also live in Matthews) I would encourage you to visit many of the meetups as some good ones have already been mentioned.

Hopefully someone can give you more encouraging news, but the banks I talked to wanted 40% down plus slightly higher interest rates.

□Do you encourage / require tenants to obtain tenant’s insurance, including liability coverage and fire liability coverage?

All that is required is written notice of your potentials but we strongly encourage that you have your new property actually under contract during that time to mitigate some of that risk.It's even perfectly fine to have the new property under contract before the old property closes. 

Best of luck on continuing your adventure.Hi @Jon Deaversthank you for your encouragement and advice.