Sell them now.After you read some more books, blogs, videos, whatever, and get a better feel for finding below market properties, then you can start to think about getting into a house again.

Trench, flippantly turn off the light, the qualifier is not relevant.  

@Jr Trotta Dislcaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the following: Housingalerts.com (Ken Wade) has two videos of the top 50 markets on YouTube.

heynot sure if this is the right subforum, excuse me if it's the wrong one.i'm thinking about investing in a rental property, long term rentals. i'm having troubles deciding what is the best option, a condo or a single family house. a few relevant details - i will be buying the property 100%- i will hire a property management company. worth mentioning also that i am not living in the us.- just to give a sense of what kind of property i'm talking about, let's say the current plan is a 100k property in orlando fl. from what i understand, to pros of owning a condo is that most of the outside repairs are being taken care by the hoa, which means less troubles, downside is of course it will cost me 200-300$ a month (rough estimate, looking at the properties i checked so far) and from what i understand condos appreciation tend to go up less in time.so my questions boils down to the difference in repairs cost:- usually the rule i hear about allocating money to repairs is 1% of the house values. is that value the same for both condos and single family?

Not a book - but I second YouTube - you would not believe what they have dozens of videos on.

I stumbled upon real estate investing from a YouTube video and got "The Bug".

I started listening to podcasts on the way to work and back, and watching YouTube videos every night. 

The facts are the only relevant information required to screen any applicant.

Offers can be written and signed electronically, you can tour the property with a video call on a smartphone, etc. 

I found BiggerPockets via a Youtube video and I wondered if there is a collective of BiggerPockets thinkers in the UK.