You must still comply with New Jersey's landlord-tenant laws and regulations.Managing Properties for Others: If you plan to manage properties that belong to other people, you need to be a licensed real estate broker or work under a licensed broker.

It takes a little work to move your personal belongings out (paperwork, photos, special items), but it's worth it to have someone covering my mortgage and then some while I travel.

Evictions/move-outs that regularly included half a tenant's torn-up furniture, personal items, and damage to units that would take weeks to clean out and a state requirement to store tenant belongings for 30 days after move-out, even in the case of evictions. 

Hopefully, this will be longer than a one-off relationship for you to start your investing journey. 

I lived next door, growing up it belonged to the original homesteader, a little old lady named Thelma.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Every extortion attempt I have experienced in Baja has happened North of Ensenada.Beyond Ensenada are cool things like wineries (I do not drink wine), La Bufadora and its blow hole, great little fishing villages, Gurerro Negro and Scammons Lagoon (best whale watching on earth), San Pedro Martir (least visited forest region within a day of San Diego and has the twin Picacho del Diablo peaks and the national observatory), numerous Missions in various degrees of condition, hot springs, party towns (San Felipe), surf towns, snorkel/diving (anywhere in Sea of Cortex in Baja Sur), Sand Dunes (Baja races), etc.My worse theft south of Ensenada has been some bottled water.So the question is why Rosarito? 

Would be happy to meet for coffee or a drink sometime. 

They are not meant to be long term financing.

Be long minded in all things REI.