I'm a mother of an 8 and 11 year olds, my husband works full-time but I quit my job when we had my daughter and wanted RE investing to replace my income.

:Before you go too deep into the process, look at how long the period of time is for the system to recover its cost from operational profit. 

It's time to start the process as everyone else mentioned above.

-Loganville and Douglasville: Growing communities with job growth.That's my two cents on areas...

Expense ratio, as others have stated, often ends up evening out these fluctuations in each expense and can often times be a more accurate predictor over many data points.

A split time between Butte and Phoenix is pretty cool.

Over time, I discovered mistake #2 was not buying them right.

I either jack and jill the bathroom or add a hallway blocking off the bedroom portion to that bath to allow access for the rest of the members.  

I have called the office number dozens of times, but it always seems to be busy.

The time has come for me to start investing in real estate and before doing so i'm looking to build a strong and dedicated team of partners: agents, lenders, contractors and property managers mainly in the Cleveland area (but also open to markets within a 2-3 hr drive away) that already possess an excellent track record in their line of work and that value long term collaboration.