If your goal is personal-use real estate, cashing out the 403(b) is an option, but it will incur income tax and a 10% penalty, significantly reducing your available funds.

Anyone reading this thread should make it a point to read your state's real estate contract practice book or at minimum pull a list of all C.A.R. forms from the internet and read the title of each form and pick a few to read line by line to begin understanding the contract language. 

Just wondering if there are good internet guides out there to help new investors understand steps in renovations and lay out scopes of work and materials needed so we don't miss anything?  

So, not only is it cheaper to rekey, deadbolts-only STOP tenants from locking their keys in their home since they must use their key to lock it:)We are looking into a cheap camera to also use that connects to internet for remote monitoring with motion-sensor alerts.

There are a lot of active users in Houston that you should be able to connect with and meet at local meetups if you don't know them already from your experience.

Multiple tenants cannot pay, tons of bugs on the backend, User Interface doesn't load 30% of the time, the support team is based in the Philippines and they have no idea what they are doing just copying and pasting scripts. 

They don't ask for anything, so seem to just want someone to give them a medal for showing up.I believe the bootcamps and podcasts encourage new users to introduce themselves.

It's worth reaching out to Corporate Housing Groups (most HR Departments at large employers have this division as well as Relocation Companies that you can find via an internet search) to offer your property as a 30-day furnished rental.

I am also a recent rent redi user, I dont hate it, but at BPCON24 , i met with hemline and their software looked really good to me.I set up a call with them this week so use their demo, and their AI for the maintenance was very helpful.I don't mind rent redi though, I met many people at the conference, stessa was a one pf the populer ones.

Unfortunately, there's been reports of user accounts being closed without any reason.