To answer your question Will, there is a famous comedian who had a TV special titled: "You Can't FIx Stupid" Words to live by!!!

Once we get 2 years tax returns on our first rental (I call it our practice rental now), DTI ratios will be alleviated for future financing and I think progress will be quicker moving forward.I'm an engineer now and installed cable TV for about 5 years before I went to college.

Real estate is not a way to make quick cash no matter what you see on TV.

Well, you can buy Larry Going courses and most likely never spend more then $1,500 for his wholesaling 101 course or you can pay up to $25,000 for Fortunebuilders course called Mastery and not get anymore out of it then Larry Going course ( I dont own either of them, I just think Fortunebuilders are ripping people off with their high prices and using their TV stardom to gouge people).

Plus mine had matching stained wood trim - so I did not want to paint the floor.I was doing a couple maintenane items when the tenants were moving in and they were sliding their old huge tube type TV over the floor scratching the new poly right in front of me.

I do plan on using billboards and TV as a means for boosting my business.

Once your ad is flagged to the point CL recognizes it as "spam" it gets flagged immediately by their computers and never makes it live for viewers.

I'm purely guessing, but there could be an uptick in TV and film people flocking to Atlanta because of the all the work it provides, and who might be looking for short term rental units to stay in.A lot of my production work deals in neighborhoods with high crime rates, so at least I'm learning where NOT to purchase!

On monthly rentals, is it reasonable to require tenants to pay their own power/internet/tv?  

There is not a book in the world that will provide reality, just like those dumb flipping shows on TV, not reality.