The next day I started listening to Josh and Brandon on the podcast because I have a fairly long ride a few times a week to pick up my son and it was an educational way to use the down time.  

There is no easy path or free ride to investing in income properties.

It is in addition to your standard insurance, wind and hail, ect..  

The subway ride from Borough Park or Flatbush in Brooklyn to Penn station NYC is over an hour. same trip takes under 40 min from Newark.

If you can and are content with the associated risk, putting the smallest down payment means you can use the money to make more money than it is costing you to "borrow" it.Generally you want to be able to ride out any short term swings in an investment that is not very liquid.

This may be the case with your neighbor, especially since it appears you've been monitoring the supposed activity the neighbor claims and seen nothing that confirms this.Some home owners are just nosy people who would rather see an empty building than tenants living there.My story....we once had an incident where a young man decided to ride his bicycle down to the local Kroger very early one morning to buy his uncle some soda. 

It has been a wild ride for sure. 

I typically find areas of interest by taking motorcycle rides.

Enjoy the real estate ride, sounds like you made a great decision to switch!  

@Kevin Stone , first off, keep your dead end job until your real estate agent job takes off for an extended period of time and you have some savings to help you ride out the slower times.Second, what do your finances look like?