Its worth having your brokers license if you want to make money helping other people buy and sell.

Since you know who you want to serve, try to tailor your listing to make it easy for them to say, "yes".General advice: MTRs are attactive to a lot of people because of the increased cash flow, but it's the appreciation over time that really generates wealth in real estate.

Many people hire an inspector.

This is especially true the more people you try to cram under one roof. 

Sometimes people look at the cash flow in year 1 or 2 and question why anyone would invest in real estate.   

A lot of seller finance asks are from people who have no money or credit so horrendous no one would give them a loan.

If your serious about it you should join facebook groups, go to real estate networking events, connect with people who are doing it and ask them questions.

You will certainly gets lots of different perspectives from the forums and most likely multiple people will have experienced a similar situation in their investing journey!

Bottom line some people in America live in such filth its unimaginable to most folks.U do this long enough you will see it all..  

Quote from @Jared Leggett: Quote from @Corey Conklin: I know that moving away from home isn't what anyone really wants to do but in your situation it would absolutely change your life, financially (and for the better) if you left.Again, I don't know your situation but I can tell you that a sanitation worker in a small town in Kansas (town of about 12,000 people) makes more money than you do living in NYC.