Buying with an LLC is a great way to safeguard yourself and your property, highly recommended, however, if you’re purchasing through an LLC that was not formed specifically for the purposes of acquiring your investment property, ensure you own more than 50% as LLCs can get complicated with multiple equal shareholders.

Don't forget to run your numbers multiple ways.

Everyone knows who the new person is and the goal is always to mess with them and test them and try to get them to spend their money on the junk so we can get the good ones. 

We had to make emergency decisions multiple times a day for weeks to protect the properties and the tenants.

When we follow up it takes multiple business days and sometimes more than a week to get a response. 

The ADUs that the most experienced are adding leverage bonus density program or other such rules to add multiple units and for the most part they exit.  

Not all VA loans are owner-occupied as the VA gives you an allotment so you can have multiple properties with VA loans depending on what they clear you for.

House hacking seems like the best strategy for me.My goal is to purchase a single-family home in Maryland, D.C, (from lurking I've heard D.C was terrible for investing) or Virginia with multiple rooms where I'm making monthly payments similar to what I pay in rent and other charges ($2000-$2500).

Once the interior was stripped and the infrastructure tested, I brought in commercial contractors to handle critical systems like plumbing, electrical, roofing, and HVAC installation.The house, built in the early 1900s, was originally a coal-burning residence.

We're stuck, cost us too much to cancel at this point but know that we will NOT renew anything and have multiple reminders so we get the cancellation notice in on time.