If you are a seasoned investor and are buying low priced properties it may work here and there, but to assume that it will automatically give you a competitive advantage is a litte naive and stems probably for superficial understanding of how it works. 

For many people, a lot of this stems from having a low self-esteem.

So was this was a recent case if the courts factored in the unpaid rent stemming from covid?

If you find the right size, buy a set of three (or whatever you need) so they all match.It the stem itself is messed up, that can be replaced too.

Both properties have the tenants growing cannabis growing in them. 

Again, I am not an attorney, but I have difficulty believing, even in this absurdly litigious society, that you can be held liable for dangers caused to a person, by that person, in regards to fire hazards or whatnot stemming from their housekeeping or actions.

You need to be able to communicate effectively with the person painting walls as well as the person underwriting your loans.I think a STEM field would give him more options but get that's a hard sell if he's set on real estate.That being said, much to the chagrin of my family of educators, I flunked out of a couple colleges before I was 21, and had almost clawed my way to an associates degree before I took a semester break two and half years ago when we were expecting our daughter.

My interest in real estate stems from reading Craig Curelop's The House Hacking Strategy: How to Use Your Home to Achieve Financial Freedom; ever since reading this book, I have been learning in preparation to purchase my wife and I's first investment property a 2-4 unit small multiplex (in Massachusetts driving distance from my wife's work in Medfield) which will allow us to implement Craig's house hacking strategy, and begin to scale our real estate business toward financial freedom.

@Heather SkowronskyHi Heather, Similar to Calvin, I too Was wondering how section 8 worked in the local area with regards to fair market rent, stemming mainly from Joe's Strategy in DC.

These changes all stem from a lawsuit sitting at the PA Supreme Court about how funding tied to the school district properties is not fair for depressed areas and violates the PA Constitution's edict on education availability.Articles:https://dornish.net/is-pennsylvania-ready-in-2018-to-end-most-property-tax-for-funding-public-schools/https://dornish.net/is-pennsylvania-ready-to-end-most-property-tax-for-funding-public-schools/