I'm also thinking about getting a mentor but that's if time will allow me being on an unstable schedule due to work.

I love SEC 8, especially in a market like today where renters income can be unstable.

The listing agent would not let us into the single family home as it was structurally unstable and would only open the front door for us to look inside.

IMHO we are in an overheated,  unstable, "frothy" market right now, so anything you purchase right now you should be prepared to hold for quite awhile if the music stops. 

Higher end US RE has also been used as place for foreigners from countries with unstable currencies to park money for decades.

They’ve become increasingly unstable and I am in fear that they will do something irrational and dangerous like this.

@Jordan Lockaby, an unstable W-2 job is a major issue for obtaining bank loans.

It seems as though we are in a bit of a potentially unstable market when considering, Covid-19, Election, no evictions, population decrease in the county and state this is located.

Homes that look like they cashflow may often have knob and tube wiring, lead paint, octopus furnaces lined with crumbling asbestos, unstable stone foundations, plaster and lath walls, roofs with triple layers of shingles requiring tear-off - all requiring expensive renovations. 

Currently, the Bolivian economy is unstable and I'm not sure what will happen in the upcoming months.