Having bad tenants is not something you would like to have, thus make sure the tenant has sufficient income, credit, and who they are.

In cities with significant and sustained population growth, rents and prices will rise faster than inflation, enabling financial freedom.Conversely, rents and prices rise slowly in cities with static or declining populations because the current housing inventory is sufficient.

I think so many of these responses are based on made up hypothetical’s and not real life, I don’t think the vast majority of people are out to marry someone only for money & I certainly don’t think you want to get married assuming divorce but in the real world life is long people can be married for decades and something can change people can grow apart, you can even have a contentious divorce where getting the money becomes as much about hurting the other person as getting the money itself, I don’t think there should be any shame in making that even in a good marriage that if you grow apart you don’t put yourself in financial jeopardy.

fix and flips are the vast majority of the targets for private lenders.

Try and undertake fairly simple projects for your first couple even if the returns are not as impressive as you hope (still make sure there is sufficient profit).

If you can find smaller local banks in the market you pick they may have more unique products that they keep on their balance sheet or try and do the 5% down conventional on a 4-unit  FHA's self-sufficiency test applies to both 3 and 4-unit properties.

Photos, video and reviews should be sufficient. 

If you have sufficient equity, you may be able to leverage it to pay down your mortgage and reduce your monthly payment.

The key here is to ensure that the property’s value has increased sufficiently to make refinancing viable and beneficial.6.

Just based off statistics the vast majority of people (nevermind the vast majority of RE investors) will never replace their W2 income w/ RE income.