Just wondering how long it took for you you purchase your first property    For me  it started while flipping channels on dish one night and a guru make a zillion bucks overnight Infomercial was on (I didn't buy the zillionaire program)but I thought couldn't be to hard so I looked  online at property's  on land watch and afew other places .Next day  talked about it with my wife  then drove and checked out property's and had lots of phone conversations  (found that many realtors don't bother to return calls)and many of the FSBO must have gold nuggets and lots of  valuable gems scattered barely under the surface of their lots going by prices.   

; also, photograph some of your kitchen amenities like pots and pans, dishes, etc.  

Maybe they can wash dishes, vacuum, or clean the house.

While I'd love to be a homeowner, I would dish out at least 325k to purchase a home in my area, and I feel that investing this in rental properties would be a better direction.

the city inspector ask to add double shut off valve for the kitchen sink and the dish washer, and asked to add a sensor switch in the bathroom, and I paid him again to come and passed the final inspection... horrible dealing with the city.

And DO NOT install a "soap dish" or other "shelves" on the long wall and/or in the corners.

Each bedroom, each bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, walls, pots and pans and glasses and dishes and sheets and towels and blankets and decorative stuff and pictures and perhaps exterior stuff like patio furniture.

Suppose if you have Stevie Wonder doing it, maybe.Disconnect output hose, turn water off at sink, remove water supply hose, pull out dishwasher, disconnect from mains, connect new one to leccy, water and waste, push back in, put dishes in, turn on, job done.How on earth do you spend more than say 30 minutes?

What I did not tell you , the loan term is amortized over 2 years, the park is only worth 450k and best part is since you were too hung up on a down payment, you did not dish out for a phase 1 and bought a contaminated property.  

Easy-going is fine until one of you actually feels bothered or that something is not fair (that guy has larger bedroom so should pay more; his girlfriend never leaves, dirty dishes everywhere, etc.)