April is a safe month to "play the market" if you will, because the market starts picking up as a whole then but, a good reliable tenant to me always seems better than making a few hundred more a month.

Try to pick things where replacement pieces are possible and easy. i ill add that I put in some games we really like as a family, they went missing over a couple of months.

@Venice Victory not sure if you picked up prior comments about ordinary tax rates.

I'm going to start reaching out soon to a friend of a family member who owns a local PM group with roughly 1000 doors for lower income, just to pick his brain, but I can envision a scenario where if I needed to partner with someone to get my first deal and gain some creditability and experience, he may be willing to assist.

If this is your first purchase, Remember it is also okay to pick your closest metro as a starting place.

Not to say that you'd pick crappy materials, but contractors with experience have manufacturers and suppliers that they know guarantee their products and that helps them know they can stand behind their work. 

I would advise picking one of those strategies and rolling with it.

I noticed that your initial post was from 4 months ago and would love to connect with you to pick your brain about your progress over last few months :)

The results are people who don’t know that their stock picks can go down as well as up; who think that the ‘stock market” guarantees a 15% annual yield; who don’t have any concept of risk, or it’s relationship with return; and who believe that the intrinsic value of an investment is somehow directly related to its last 12 month pricing movement.  

I have a client that I just picked up that should have been filing a partnership return since 2006 but filed on Schedule E.