Quote from @Brendan Jones: I am very new to learning about real estate and am looking for advice on my first home and how I can best use it to help offset my mortgage and generate cash flow.

I am not trying in any way advising to time the market I am just making a point. 

All advise appreciated!

Even if it does, there's closing costs to consider.As I said, I have no cash myself, so I'm asking how I can deal with generating cash for closing costs (and a down payment) if it comes to it.The house costs $139000.

That is subjective though - I just advise my exchange clients to understand that number and understand their exposure.

You need a lot of units under management to pay a maintenance tech 40 hours per week.When determining when to hire a PM or ops team member, that greatly depends on how much revenue your units generate.

I'm in Detroit now for inspections on one and to generate the scope of repairs on the other.

One fast way to generate cash flow is to invest in high cash flow, low appreciation markets (say several midwest e.g.

I've been updating things that need it and lucky enough, I can do the work myself to keep cost down for now, only because it be my first rental.any advise would be much appreciated. 

Hi BP, would like to hear feedback from all you folks in or near the Kansas City area,Currently I'm looking for a software to help me generate leads, but there's so many of them to choose from, I don't know which is best suited for my area.