Network with experienced investors, choose a real estate strategy, research markets with job and population growth, learn financing options, familiarize yourself with property management, develop a long-term plan, and leverage your stock experience to evaluate markets and trends.Good luck!

Quote from @An Lan: I am not a professional real estate investor, I just invest in houses as a safe asset and do not choose to rent them out.

Many of our investors choose areas that have low land cost and steady population growth.

With that said, choosing your bank based on customer service relationships and business credit products should be a priority. if you’re looking for a bank that offers great service and lower wire fees, I’d suggest starting with NFCU.

During the Lula setup process, select "I will choose which maintenance requests will be sent to Lula" instead of opting for all requests to be sent automatically.

This benefit allows the owner’s estate or heirs to receive the property at a new, higher basis—reducing capital gains taxes if they choose to sell the property after inheriting it.In short, partial disposition allows tax deductions for retired property components during ownership, while the death step-up basis resets the property’s depreciated value, providing tax relief for heirs.

It's lengthy and of course, they can pick and choose what to read or jump around to what they want to learn. 

If you choose not to owner occupy you'll need to put more money down (like 25% vs 3.5%), so just keep that in mind. 

I do think you need a separate entrance option or at least two entrances in a four-plex to make it easier on the LTR tenants, but if you are open about it form the start, everyone gets it and you choose the unit composition based on which ones will be STR or MTR.

Also, I would want to see Line 14 SE shown as 0 no matter whether it's reported as Line 1 income or Line 4 guaranteed payments.Good luck in pursuing with AHP if you choose to go that route.