This is where everyone started.Residential investing is very forgiving by nature, you have to try hard to really screw it up.

With running this "business" there will be operational input costs.

We just need to verify that you have cash for the downpayment, closing cost, and up to 6 months of the mortgage payment as reserves.

Fixing up my neighborhood How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

I took up being an agent as my side hustle that slowly became my full gig but before that I didn't need a side hustle as overtime was readily available to me as a nurse. 

Quote from @Paul LaValley: I live in Tucson and know Tucson really really well so I want to start here and then jump up to include Phoenix area. 

If you're interested in an invite just send me a message and I'll get you signed up.

But from a moral & ethical perspective, you may want to decide at some point to just eat it and accept write it off as cost of doing business.

After getting fed up with the property managers I started managing, repairing, maintaining, leasing the properties and collecting rents using online tools like thumbtack, Angie's list, Rentsavvy, Apartments.com. 

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