PMs are busy - if you email a PM and say "Hey PM, I'm looking at 123 Main St. and I think it will rent for $1500 a month, does that sounds right?"

They have a payments 3rd party website, but it's hard to find the link from their main website. 

When all the dust settles, and the  person searching is tired and discouraged and gives up, Jerry may not have bought  a single lot, but he's made some money from the training he sold you, which was his main goal from the beginning!

The main criteria is consistency with adopted plans.

The loan to value that you can go up to will mainly be determined by your age.

Tools like this helped us determine that retiring in the Memphis Metro area was good for us and has helped form our investing strategy, mainly SFR and some commercial spaces (flex, studios, small office).

Do you typically have a separate bank account for each property or do you have one main operating bank account? 

Price is often not the main or the only concern for the seller, they have other needs.

Duplexes have less risk:  Mainly because you have less tenant risk (but we will address that on the next paragraph).

You should have two main lessons learned from all this.First: Tenant screening.