My career has been centered around helping businesses scale through strategic sales initiatives, but I’m now channeling that same drive into real estate investing to build long-term wealth.My wife and I are in our early 40s, both work full-time, and are raising four amazing kids.

Make sure you're calculating correctly.The second thing is that you just started out.....congratulations!

We do not raise it to market rents, we keep it at lease 10% below to try and reduce turnover.

Best of luck and spend every minute learning.

Welcome to the community, Evan!

Lol, I'm  not sure i was very helpful, more anecdotal lol.I learned to estimate from other contractors many years ago.I found labor unit books from college bookstores.

Right now, I’m actively learning and planning to start my first projects this year.

So what can be learned from this?

If you buy 2-3 bedrooms house, you have have up to 2 friends.

I am not sure if I should stay local to my market.