Eliminate all emotions and don’t force a deal to work if the numbers don't support it.

Everything else is your emotional IQ and gut feeling.Last advice, if you find a good one make sure you take care of them.

Hi Amber,Congratulations on having such a hard working tenant.The request for a boat was probably from his emotion at the time and not a something he seriously intended you to do.If he were my resident, once the flooding stops, I'd go out to inspect the place and tell him how impressed I was with his commitment to care for his family.

I will look deeper into multifamily. 

As pointed out above, some will contract with a TPA to provide these services.I would be happy to discuss further with you privately if you would like to drill deeper into the topic.

They will look out for you and you will do the same for them.Your first purchase is going to be special both emotionally and financially and you will learn a lot from it.Good Luck and Thank you for your service (hope I got that right)

As I dug deeper I found 26 U.S.

You should really tackle this debt before you get deeper into real estate, because if we hit a recession, which we probably will in a year or two, and a few things go wrong like you lose a tenant or two due to job loss, and your property values tank 20-30% ... you'll basically be on the verge of bankruptcy.

Although it's a bit scary to use a HELOC, since we'd be leveraging our primary residence that we've put so much time, hard work and emotion into.At the end of the day it boils down to this...

This past summer we did a big rehab on a duplex that took a lot out of us emotionally.