Hearing some guru say he "made" 50K on a property after he bout it at a lower price is pure horsefeathers, it's Enron accounting, claiming nonexistent perceived equities as a profit.

If done right they provide less thermal conductivity than vinyl or pure aluminium framed windows.  

It was purely, "it's in a good neighborhood", "it's not older than 1980", "school district according to the PM was good and well sought after", "the cost was within or less than the comps", "other homes as rentals were doing well", "the interior and exterior didn't need much work Class B", "and the sky was blue without a cloud in it" :) Ok the last one was just for grins.

It is pure laziness.

Such plans are purely for diversifying your tax sheltered retirement savings into alternative assets such as real estate, but all activities must be exclusively for the benefit of the plan and you may not personally use the plan funds in any way.

Once the primary residence is stabilized with rental income, it will be time to look for a pure investment property. 

Calls me leave a message, no more than 5 minutes go by,I listen to the message and go to text the tenant a response that I would contact the furnace guy and my husband and someone would be out today to check it and would they need an eden pure heater to keep things warm for the day and as I’m typing the tenant texts me and says hubby has it all taken care of he’s coming out now to check on it.I call hubby and tell him he’s just ruined our 24hr call system and he says what do tenants do in an emergency and I feel like emergency...fire call 911, water main break call the town.

You have to decide your business model and how hands on you’re willing to be.That being said, from a pure numbers perspective the key metrics I look at are cap rate and cash- on- cash return.

That being said, you don't want to stake your financial future on pure speculation.

My personal opinion is that BBB is a massive scamIt's purely a pay-to-play manufactured credential.