Just know that salt water puts real wear and tear on things.

Is Salt Lake really big enough to have 3 REIAs? 

There's salt there still (if it gets low let me know)and if that shovel breaks or sucks let me know!

I've dealt in Salt Lake, Vegas, and Dallas.

So you probably need to take him with a little salt.  

There's no such thing as overnight success, but if you are in it for the long haul and serious about it you can be successful at it.Quote of the week:"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right" ~ Henry FordI am new to this as well, so take my advice with a grain of salt (it is free after all :) ).

@Leah Bonner I do PPC for investors professionally, so please take what I say with a grain of salt. here's my take on the differences between SEO, PPC, and Direct Mail.DIRECT MAILDirect Mail has long been the workhorse of motivated seller lead generation.

In regards to cost, I would rather all my properties be on Well and septic, my personal home is, I hate municipal charges. our rentals on septics we have in the lease that the tenant is responsible to have the tank pumped per local law, if they dont, like unpaid water bills, they will be evicted. wells come with in some cases Iron issues, as well as hardness issues, we supply a filter and softening system, it is the tenants responsibility to replace filters, and fill salt, no different than having them replace furnace filters. yea you may have a pump fail, or a septic fail, but the over all cost can be a CapX item.

And the conventional wisdom seems pretty much to be that the "zestimate" found on Zillow.com is very inflated and to be taken with a grain of salt.

I'm an aspiring investor so take all of this with a grain of salt, but here are my notes from J Scotts "The Book on Flipping Houses" regarding forms that you should get a contractor to sign.