There are fees associated with going to Real Estate school, obtaining your license, joining the board and MLS for your area, getting proper E&O insurance and so forth. 

With an 8% mortgage rate, they would pay more than $650k in interest.One major problem for both buyers and owners beyond mortgage rates is the rising cost of property tax and insurance.

The Homeowners Insurance will include Builder's Risk. 

Dont trust this company! There are scammers! There are fraud. They sell you a package to enter and then find you people to stay and never paid you back!

The biggest form of energy production in Tennessee today, nuclear power, simply wouldn't exist without many, many trillions in tax dollars to develop, not to mention the government stepping up to insure and protect the plants, manage and protect the waste for half an eternity, and clean up the trillion dollar mess in case of another disaster.

For rentals, would a single floor or two floors makes sense? 

When analyzing properties, it's helpful to run a rental stress test to see if the deal can withstand unexpected challenges.

They have the choice of finding their own insurance or they can be automatically enrolled in my master policy.

Im really interested in buying some cashflowing rentals in Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, maybe the Carolinas.

Quote from @Nilusha Jayasinghe: Hey all, I'm a smalltime investor currently living in a flat of a Chicago 2-flat while renting the other out, and also have a SFH rental in OH.