Still kind of early, but the labor rates and materials appear to be very low.I have Office 2003 enterprise ed, and when I tried to open the bonus materials in the form of docs, xls and pdf's, I had to download the 37 MB, Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility app, in order to read them with M.S.

If the tenant went to legal aid they’d have a field day with you.

Thanks in advance,GeorgePS Listened to Bigger Pockets Podcast #314 with Andresa Guidelli and tried using some of her tips regarding challenging appraisals, this is my first time buying/challenging an appraisal so could use any advice to aid in this process :)

I've dealt with tenants on state aid and have resulted in good experiences.I wouldn't necessarily say that a Section 8 tenant is any better or worse than a regular tenant.

I used to be a nurse aide and his mom was one of my patients and his mom loved and had nothing but good things to say.

I wonder if there is any way to reach out to the state directly and see what the terms of rent aid actually are?

Or we may make our first home a 2-family unit so we can get our feet wet as landlords - we're not sure yet.We've drunk the Dave Ramsay kool-aid so we'd like to do this as un-leveraged as possible - either paying all cash, or using a mortgage but paying it off as quickly as possible before we purchase the next property.We want to spend the next couple years learning as much as we can about real estate, so that we can make some good decisions.

If college involves taking out thousands upon thousands of debt just because everyone is doing it...versus receiving a scholarship or having parental aid....

Matthew,Inherent to any enterprise a question to start with might be "What are my goals?"

It's nice to see what kind of backgrounds we all have.Since high school I've worked as a dietary aide, patient registration clerk, medical secretary, stay-at-home home, cardiac technician and now I currently work as an EEG tech.