I couldn't make it pass the first couple of pages.Yup.

Tackle your credit first.

Many of the OTAs and lead gen sites, like Furnished Finder, are pushing credit card payments. 99.9% of the time I get a message from FF saying 'your tenant would prefer to pay by credit card so activate Stripe now!' 

@Jaycee Greene after the year living there at first property can you get a second fha loan but have to live for a year too on the next one?

This unexpected expense turned what was promised as a cash-positive investment into a cash-negative one—the first in my investing career.To make matters worse, I lost $21,000 due to the property managers recommended by RTR.

I guess I was in analysis paralysis for a very long time.

Maintained appropriate insurance yourself (builders risk when under renovation, vacant when vacancy periods exceeded your insurance policies allowable time frame etc?

A lot of times you don't know what the big box guys are going to refer to you. 

IE they just work in the NPN space and try to work the notes and ending up owning probably happens maybe not the majority of the time but quite often..

Bill Nickerson, who wrote the first book ever targeting small real estate investors and small deals (How I Made $5 million in Real Estate in my Spare Time) was a guy that was the u;to age straight shooter, told you the good, bad, and ugly - NO PUFF.