Regarding a book, I learned a lot from Location, location, location by Ozzie Jurock and he has quite a bit of free content on YouTube and his website.

This tax can significantly increase the upfront cost of acquiring property, so it's important to factor it into the total cost of investment.2.

if they are a great PM 20% is totally fair. not too high and not too low

While with Jeff for 11 months, we have received a total of 2 very small owner distributions with the first one going into someone else's account. 

Explore my personal favorites, Set For Life by Scott Trench or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, for invaluable financial insights.3.

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If you just want to do buy and hold, you can purchase a duplex in a B area for around 150-180k with rents at around $2400/mo total.

I’ve spent less than 150k total out of pocket investing in RE in the last 9 years and have been buying “base hits” in Dallas and Arkansas and now have 29 SFR.

I'd deduct this before accounting for your total cash flow. 

also, did you subscribe to the course and actually dig into the content-!?