My family and I will move into the new, hopefully habitable investment, and I will give myself a 1 year time frame to make repairs so we can move onto the next investment"The goal is subject to change once I start hitting milestones and if I accomplish this earlier than my selected time frame.Thanks for reading and feel free to critique my goals or thoughts,James Barnes

Old habits die hard 

Some where just people complaining but others were actually quite terrible.At first I was worried what I would find, but after more searching saw that it was either1) Actually terrible landlords not providing a habitable apartment, or2) Terrible tenants just complaining about high rent.This is a business, offer a good product and get good customers.

Only reason I ask is it’s alarming how two people can attain that much student loan debt and if it had anything to do with spending habits while in grad school.

I recently completed his, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.

They are acting as an agent without the laws, ethics requirements, education, and insurance that are vital IMO.

The Best Deals are always going to be where youcan clearly bring more vitality to  a listing with favorable Price and Terms.  

I haven't actually talked to any investors from that area, but that is a vital step in this whole process.

Screening tenants to assess their cleanliness, habits, and personality is very difficult to gauge in about a half hour.  

About the same time that CA banned online vital records (death, birth, marriage).