If you're looking at the property, are you doing this before putting in an offer (seems like that could get incredibly expensive), or making your offer contingent upon inspection?

It has been such an incredible learning experience and having someone on my team who knew the ropes before me really made everything click!

I won't even pretend to know other markets outside of Killeen but I know this market incredibly well.  

I think most people, at least in the Seattle area, are pretty familiar with tools like Zillow and Redfin that provide incredibly useful real estate data. 

What an incredible resource Bigger Pockets is.

um that's the think i have been looking through zillow and there is a wide range of houses i have been interested in 19143, 19134, 19140 are a couple of zip codes that i have found cheap houses that could potentially be great rental properties.

All of the strategies that it mentions are widely used in today's market.

While I get your perspective about how can someone fail with residential real estate, I think it's incredibly easy to fail.  

Kensington is a great neighborhood, incredibly strong rental market, and offers a great deal of upside potential.

@Will Barksdale Yes sir we did- we got some incredible terms through a local lender.