You could easily spend a lot of capital to start with something else but doing the house hack gets you started and your feet wet.

The great thing about living in a high cost of living area is that your salary / wages are hopefully also very high.If you are a new college grad, I would focus the next 1-3 years on increasing your salary as much as possible(gain new skills, new certifications, change employers, etc).Once you make more money, you can easily get in a position to buy a property on a more frequent basis.Best of luck!

This is an unrealistic scenario because you cannot easily find someone to give you 95% financing on four properties. 

Make sure they will easily fit with your small trash bags.

.: Quote from @Calvin Thomas: Quote from @John Underwood: I stumbled across this lawsuit while looking for something else.As I have mentioned before in this forum an LLC that is not 100% property ran can easily be pierced and the owner sued personally.Here is an example of where an attorney went after someone that thought their LLC would protect them:18.

You are easily verifiable and people know you can't scam them and just disappear like these anonymous/fake Facebook profiles. 

Quote from @Caliana Johnstone: Realized leasing to a new tenant can take 5-10 hours easily.

I invested $50k; I received a whopping $125.very disappointed; I could have easily bought another rental or invested in a mutual fund and done so much better.

Anytime this has come up in the past the lien was easily resolved by the contractor.

I do like the efficiency of pricelabs in terms of easily monitoring your comps (if you use the Neighborhood tab and load in your comps)