@Evan BrookmanAll news, comments, reports tell me Phoenix and surrounds are a hot market -no pun intended

Hey thanks Steve, I appreciate it. cheers, Cliff PS: Is that a pun I see in your company name?

However, I think the option contract suggested above is the cleanest option (pun intended).

If you're still interested in a good, fair, and competent PM, then PM me (no pun intended).  

(no pun intended).

In this scenario, I would have to have Bigger Pockets, pun intended, to be able to put the necessary down payment and to plan for the first few months of renting expenses.

If all this is well, (no pun intended :0) ) a water filter coming in from the well to the house would be helpful to capture some of the iron or other minerals before they enter your house plumbing system.Hope it works out good!

@Ryan Cauzza Whatever you do, don't 'follow the herd' (pun intended) and do what everyone else is doing.  

Be sure to give @Michael Quarles  a shout-out for the jedi mind tricks ;)@BeBe Cheng You are one of the few people I know like me that buys and “kills it” in East Oakland (pun intended!

Definitely nothing wrong to get your hands dirty (pun intended) to learn the tricks of landlording.You don't have to do this forever, just learn enough and move on to better and larger things like Wendell says.