Hello BP,I hope everyone is having a successful and productive 2018 so far!

A lot of people have mentioned ROE which is fantastic because that is an excellent way to make your decision.As I am reading more into your strategy, I would start with your long term goals because there is no right or wrong decision.Some people elect to use rent money and aggressively pay down their mortgage.

I get why some would say investors are causing the affordability issue, but my guess is it would be a lot more productive if policies/discussions focused on two issues, (i) why haven't wages been increasing as asset prices and rent have gone up the last 10 years and (ii) why isn't there enough of an incentive for investors to build affordable housing.

I know that no matter what our first deal looks like, there will be some kind of rehab involved and I want to learn-by-doing as much as I can.I don't have an abundance of time, as I work full-time as a Product Manager in Technology for Disney...but I have some evenings to spare and most weekends with enough notice.

You have a product that's inferior to other listings.

Just call around and ask what type of loan products they have available. 

All that said, Thomas brings up an excellent point that you probably want to wait until the dust settles with your baby before jumping in to investing.

@Jordan Beckett excellent information, thanks I'll write those names down to check. 

@Chris Martin  excellent post.. the reality this is as I stated NO warrenties and ALL risk on the buyer type of way to acquire assets. 

I currently use SimplifyEm for numbers management, EXCEL to track my monthly rents, digital files for each tenant, paper files for each property and door, Outlook for communications managment......you get what I mean!