Screen tenants thoroughly, have a solid lease, and maintain an emergency fund for unexpected expenses.

@Joseph Spear Please post again in 6 months:1) Ho wlong it took to fill al vacancies2) Tenant payment performance3) Tenant turnover rate & costs4) Any surprises

Even simple things like making sure each photo on Airbnb has Alt text and that is fits into their SEO categories, I was surprised that more people weren't aware of it. 

You'd be surprised to learn that someone living in a rental or apartment, that has a family and is a successful small businessman, has the money and is willing to take that deal.

Sounds like a box of unexpected surprises, I'd pass.

With current interest rates, and they are at least 1% higher with potentially additional points for non owner occupied property, it is hard to find properties that will allow for positive cash flow after paying the mortgage, if you are looking for money for the down payment from a private lender, those are normally at higher than market and I am not sure it would be possible to pay it off.... please remember you need to take into account that you may not have a tenant for a certain amount of time, a tenant may stop paying rent, or you will have a big ticket item to fix, so I would wait if I were you and save to have enough for the down payment and closing costs and perhaps some money set aside for repairs. you also want to make sure that you have your own emergency fund outside of the money needed for the investment property because life happens ....

I've heard horror stories that it's usually impossible due to the "burden placed on the municipality" but could really never understand what that burden was... most people living in those units wouldn't be using the school systems so aside from maybe an increased volume in emergency medical situations I can not understand that statement? 

Have you ever stopped to think about how much wealth you’ve built up just from being a homeowner? As home values rise, so does your net worth. And, if you’ve been in your house for a few years (or longer), there’s a...

They tell me the original project manager had a family emergency and had to leave so Kenny took on the project himself.  

She did not know why the renewal had not gone through, but noted that the property was delinquent on its property taxes.In the letter from RAD threatening eviction, which Anderson shared with The Inquirer, the company encouraged her to register for help from the city’s COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program and provided a link to the program’s website.Anderson said the house had been newly renovated when she moved in in 2019, but she noticed some signs of shoddy work, like dips in the floorboards and a bathroom faucet affixed to the kitchen sink.Still, she’d had few serious maintenance complaints about the property and found RAD’s property managers to be sufficiently responsive.Deteriorating homesSlaughter, the tenant who was outbid for her West Philadelphia home by Mendenhall, wasn’t as complimentary.