Kevin, greetings from another Washingtonian, although on the other side of the mountains.You may feel like time is wasting, but better to take it slow, enjoy the stage of life with wee ones, and get into deals you really want to be in.Welcome to Bigger Pockets!

Hi, I'm in the acquisition stage of rental properties.  3 so far in austin.  

That being said, you can weed out a number of tenants with a simple, organized screening process before they ever get to the application stage - this goes a long, long way towards minimizing the amount of work you have to do.As far as explaining the costs, you just have to tell your applicants what you said yourself - there are expenses involved in screening.

Hello everyone,My name is James Peoples, I'm in the beginning stages of real estate investment.

My brother and I are in the beginning stages of forming an investment company, and we've decided that duplexes (or possibly triplexes/4 plexes) is where we'd like to focus for our buy and hold strategy.

I have little actual investment experience thus far in my career, as I am still in the stage where I do not feel I have enough knowledge to be confident in decisions regarding what to do with my money.

I feel that i'm in the Analysis Paralysis stage but that just encourages me to continue on pursuing.

I like to think crawl with action because I tend to get stuck in the idea/research stage.

At this point, I feel a bit torn between the "learning/information-gathering" and "taking action" stages.

I also have four lots in that area which I'm in the planning stages of building modular homes on selling off.