Quote from @Ryan McKay: Quote from @John Underwood: ...We just bought a property with 5k down and owner financing the rest at zero percent.

But Chris fired him so he wouldn’t have to pay him for the rest of the work.

I added a pool and did some landscaping and have been using it as a family winter retreat and renting it to a STR operator the rest of the year.

Use your revenue to pay the mortgage, property management company and expenses then pocket the rest and repeat.  

You can just as well get married but say you'll be back someday keeping your right to come and go, no one should care, unless you've done a lease change about your space and that you are officially exiting.If None of these supposedly agreed upon things are in a lease, then you may have a problem, and lack the grounds to enforce lease violations.

This letter serves as official notice in accordance with your rental agreement.Even after this increase, we believe we are still at or below the average market rent for a unit of this type and hope you agree.

Talk about sleepless nights wondering if the bank is going ask you to write a check for the rest of your mortgage!

So when I'm reviewing screening reports for my rentals, I like to find out the story behind an eviction - I've had good tenants with evictions on their records who never bothered to expunge their eviction from the record when they had a prior vindictive landlord (yes, such landlords do exist and give the rest of us a bad name). 

Some options I'm running in the background of my brain while still learning the basics would be, in no particular order.A- HELOC.B- Sell my current house and either rent short term to get some momentum or use part of my equity to put down on a new home and the rest into a rental. 

You don't need to know everything to get started; you need a foundation to build on, and the rest will come through experience and then refining your education.You can build a basic understanding of investing in 3-6 months.