Thanks @Chris Seveney and @Andrew Postell for chiming in! I

I could send you a handful of articles that would give you the basics and you'd be fine.I have 14-doors in Detroit and 3 of them I've placed S8 tenants in. I

Buying a place to live in is completely different than buying a place for investment.   

I have not yet bought a note as they have been slow to roll in (I am particular about performing first position) and there was a hiccup initially with my setup but i have seen a few come across in the past month.

Where a good (operative word) agent's expertise comes in is doing all of these things and doing them all well, and not missing anything important, and also a million other things behind the scenes that protect their clients from being ripped off or sued or just wasting their time learning all the ins and outs of real estate transactions when there are experts they can easily hire to handle it all for them.

I’d like to ask @Saad D. from Baselane to weigh in. Is

Working with someone with proper knowledge about the market you're looking in is imperative for this.

From there you can build your CORE 4 wherever you want to invest in. I

If think you'll have capital expenses I'd factor those costs in. I

Quote from @Adam Bartomeo: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: U also are fighting all the investor who flooded int to build new homes for rental purposes so OVER supply.. and we know a ton of those got stuck with bad builders and are being worked out so supply is going to keep coming in .. I