I'm also starting off my own personal investment property journey with my husband. 

I'm looking to get started in the sober living space.

The first thing is to start looking and find an area or properties that you like before your property is even sold, and before your 45 day identification period begins.  

Many newer investors have to start somewhere and older more-beat-up homes are cheaper and can help someone get their foot in the door.As for appreciation, this too is location dependent.

Start by asking what the numbers look like. then ask yourself, do you and your aunt see things similarly or do you have very different ideas on the property? 

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.

I have been looking as well and have started free trials for both JookSMS and EZTexting.

@Deirdre Lizio see a lot of competiting PMCs start with a pledge of doing it better than "what's out there".Always interesting to revisit them 3-5 years later - after they've experienced the reality of challenging tenants AND owners.Look no further than Evernest: they started out with flat fee management at $99/month and promises of better & fairer service & pricing.Now they're at 10%, capped at $199/month - wonder what changed?

.-- Starts picking back up end of February when this tenant pool starts getting their income tax refunds and aren't broke anymore.6) Section 8: where is the property being advertised?

There are a couple of car washes in my local area that are for sale that I am interested in but do not know where to start.