Depending on where you live having a home firearm might literally be your only line of defense, since you have the disadvantage of being a fixed target, not knowing the mind of the potential assailant, and possibly being very far from police or other responders.

I literally do the same thing: I don't waste my time showing someone a house that they're not going to qualify for, if they even show up for the showing.

Matthew, if you are an accredited investor, there are literally thousands of syndications and crowdfunding deals (which are essentially syndications that are allowed to market over the Internet) available.

I've seen situations where landlords will literally tell you anything you want to hear in order to get that resident out of their property.

Of course, there is very literally entities out there who make there living via filling frivolous lawsuits than offering settlements at cost savings vs one fighting to prove innocence, and they target those "marks" based on such searches.     

If you are literally just starting then spend some time researching the pros and cons of each, but don’t overthink it.

Everyone asking DSCR, his OP literally states 30 years conventional.

There was already a lot of supply in the first place, but now your 2 bed apartment has to compete with these large buildings trying to fill vacancies literally offering 2 months free rent in some cases.

It was literally designed to facilitate failure. 

But we have been lucky enough to not receive any issues with this house as when we bought it was fully remodeled literally everything was new.