@Kenton Guidry - start by reading this thread, including my posts there: Any help for a newbie wanting to start off a real estate adventureThere are plenty of people who do flipping - figure out a problem you can solve for them and they will gladly accept you to shadow them.

Let's just hope none of your tenants read your response and figure out what a pushover and easy target you are.Not aware of any laws in Chicago or Illinois that require a landlord to provide a property with a MAXIMUM temperature.

Anyone have some go to methods to figure out vacancy or have some first hand knowledge of the Nashville market for MTRs?

Exactly how much climate change there will be (as well as how much humans will mitigate it depending on the future of green energy, new technological breakthroughs or if we ever actually figure out that 4th gen nuclear is actually the best option). 

I just don't have the patience to wait four years and spend 6-figures for environmental studies on a 1-MW, four-acre project.

FHA might work, just get out the spreadsheet/calculator to figure out if the extra PMI is worth it, or even feasible. 

No need for all of us to learn the hard way when you guys have figured it all out.

I am all ears if anyone has any wisdom to impart to a newbie.So, I recently launched an LLC and I am working on getting it certified as a Woman Owned business; not sure if that will help in any way, but I figure it can't hurt.

Once you figure in the time you spend at the coutrhouse, it just might be cheaper in the long run.Sharon

It is precisely because of mentoring programs that teach strategies and techniques to people who do not have any grasp of the three afore mentioned fundamentals that we have such a mess with “wholesaling” and “subject to” that governmental authorities are figuring ways to heavily regulate or outright ban these activities in the residential real estate field.