If someone with a 10 year old credit card with no late payments adds you as an "authorized user," you will inherit that 10 year credit history most of the time -- so you can in theory be 19 years old and have a FICO score otherwise only obtainable by a 28 year old.

You can, in turn, be very gracious too.

If we could I would like to have the margages be low enough so we don't have to rely on the rent and it can just take care of it's own unit and anything left over I'll invest. to keep the momentum up we are ok staying here untill we have enough to put a fat down payment.We were thinking if the morgage taxes and insurance were about 500 to 600 a month we could comftorably live off her income. but I am not sure it's not exactly the sane as rent there are more expenses to owning a home

Since that time we have been reading, listening and absorbing all of the information we can in hopes of getting started into this adventure.Our main goal is to create a supplemental, semi-passive income on which we can work together as a team. 

Being fat, ugly, no acting talent and I can’t sing

Even if I buy commercial at a lower cap rate (lets say 6%) and raise the value in repairs, rent increases and fat cutting to lets say 8.5%, my final cash on cash returns are still lower than a average to good SFR deal. 

Most agents know little about real estate investing, they are only salespeople and will tell you whatever they can in order to make a buck.

We're looking to make our first investment, so I want to make sure that we ask as many questions as we can in order to get the most out of this visit and meet-up.

Network with people as much as you can in person!

Nothing like a fat mark up to help "wallet train" some sense into folks.If it were really just an issue when they were cooking, they'd put the batteries back in when they were done.