Hello All,After the most exciting year and a half of my life (25 Yrs Old Now) living and working abroad in SE Asia , I have acquired enough money to begin investing. 

Certainly in SE there are lots of properties that actually look quite good on paper, but my willingness to live on that side of the river was just too low.

There are good investment opportunities in SE DC, too.

@Keith GoodwineI am not aware of any law that made double closings illegal, per se. 

It took 30 plus days for them to let us know they were missing a form that se e mailed to him 15 days ago.This is a Georgia house, so I think a deficiency judgement could come ionto play, which would be a deal killer.

SE Michigan!

Caters better to active income and SE taxes.  

I know paypal will send me a 1099 once I hit 20k and that will definitely happen next year as I plan to ramp up those efforts.My first thought was LLC taxed as scorp so that I can pay myself a salary and avoid some SE tax.

Hi @Brian Plajer, if you were to lock today, you would need a 90-day lock most likely.The lender might not have the ability to lock for 90 days so they might be holding out.You are not paying a fee per se for locking now.

Managed about a dozen section 8 rentals in small multis in SE/NE until last year for a cheapskate landlord.