Not really a big business, but a good supplemental side line at home.You will have issues and upkeep with your dump station.

I rented instead of buying because I feel the market is too debt risky should the economy or market turn.If you end up coming out here, please bring a good 200 dozen garlic knots and all of us CO BPers with be waiting at the border with hi-5s!  

If not then as a landlord you are supplementing your tenants rent payments.

Also how 'easy' is to get a non-recourse loan to supplement the 401k funds to purchase a property?

The owners supplemented us at the closing for the discounted rent.I would like to raise their rent to 980 because I feel like 1 full time adult, three part time children, and another dog (two black labs in a 1200 sq. foot apt) will definitely add to the wear and tear.

There is probably something to be said about relying too heavily on attorneys as a supplement to your knowledge being dangerous but we will leave that for another thread.In a non-negative manner, let's recite the questions and see if we can give some answers:Do I need to research all the laws of any state I am looking at?

The furnace has a lock box on it and they supplement that heat with baseboard electric (tenants pay electric).

Was planning to use to supplement my check to have all of it fell through on the final day of the notice.

If you can't afford the place without the rent, you are in a bad spot, either because you need the money to supplement your income or because you can't cover the house note without it.

If you work in a company that handles rentals as well as sales you'll be able to supplement the downtime between closings by getting broker fee / rental commission checks, which come in a lot quicker than closings - but they're smaller amounts of money.If you have any questions on the Realtor path I'd be happy to help, just shoot me a message.