I do not want to drop the ball and mess up my first purchase, so please fell free to send me some suggestions or even rip my plan apart.

So I started to buy ( kind of like income averaging knowing I was going to get my but kicked on the 5 OREO's I had left) so we got some just smokin deals in those early days after the meltdown.I would be writting on Out of country RE blogs and there were TK guys really promoting TEXAS and there reason is that Texas never fell or not much in the GFC...So that begged the question 3 or 4 years ago what was a better investment markets that got crushed or Texas... markets like Vegas Phx CA Atl  .... 

Census Bureau.The vacancy rate on single-family rentals fell to 7.3% in the second quarter, down from 10% in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the bureau.Here's what you need to know about making money in the rental market.The Traditional RouteMany investors become landlords on their own.Millions of the single-family homes occupied by renters are owned by investors who have just one such rental property, estimates Jade Rahmani, who tracks the single-family rental market as an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank based in New York.There are many benefits to going the traditional route.

Hi @Todd Goedeke, I purchased a rental in Sheboygan because I live here, I knew I wanted to manage my own property & my 1st deal fell into my lap. 

My wife and I fell into the role of providing capital and hiring/managing subs.

Just too get the fell of Real Estate Investing.

My goal for 2017 is to get my feet wet in real estate investing and I think I might have a potential property near where I live in Baltimore.It's a duplex in a great area (Fells Point) that can use a reasonable amount of TLC.

Fells Point, Locust Point, Federal Hill, and Canton are the ones that I currently have my eyes on.

I am in the middle of the rehabs on my first two projects (the second one fell into my lap at the same time).

It was previously listed, went under contract, then fell out of contract, and now it's back on the market as a new listing (which it really isn't).