Hope Mills is a good part of town for sure, but my opinion is that you're too far towards the top of the price range.It's your first one, and it's rare people get great deals on their first one (mine was awful), so I'm not beating you up but you need to know where the goal post is for minimum acceptable deals and for Fayetteville the minimum is about 1.3x price/rent and 20% equity creation.

There is also a 1,000+ job creation through an Amazon warehouse to be built by 2021 in the immediate vicinity(speculative- private companies can pull out.

I would not claim RE pro if there is no other income to offset- that lumps all of your properties into a tax grouping election and creations issues when you sell. 

I prefer Houston TX heres why; As of 2019 Houston has the #1 market for job creation in the US.

The creation of a joint venture is a question of fact that will be determined by the circumstances.

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Wealth creation is taxed much more favorably than cashflow.

Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

Look through the file and see if you can find a Building Permit or Certificate of Occupancy that demonstrates that the extra units were added legally - most likely prior to the creation of zoning in that city.

@Matthew NovelliCongratulations on your wealth creation journey.