TJ,The TRUTH (not as popular as fantasy) is that you aren't going anywhere in the rental business with bad credit.

Be able to watch TV and even a Football game without 5 million political commercials2.

You get alot of football and surfing out there in Utah?

I read about a $25,000 deduction against W2'ed income - is this a fantasy?

We love football.

Factoring in a ($50) 10 percent rent increase each year for the next 5 years puts you in fantasy land.

Directly east of that street, which is not now heavily traveled, is the neighborhood high school, and the view is basically the parking lot and the bleachers for the football stadium.

I'm sure plenty of you are familiar with this town since it is the home of the U of O Ducks football team.I have lived here my whole life after a short stent of being away when the economy tanked and jobs were almost non-existent.Since 2012 I have moved back here and started an air duct, chimney and dryer vent cleaning business.

I was looking for a place to give real answers and not fantasies about real estate investing; Bigger Pockets is the only place for that.

I'm in the military, so we have dreams of renting this place out when I get transferred, buying a new one, and so on.In my perfect fantasy world, this method could yield me 3-4 nice single family homes by my mid 30s (in 10 yrs), a good passive income stream by my mid 40s (20 yrs), and a solid retirement foundation for 55+.I have a ton of research to do and this site looks awesome.