You want to be educated but make sure to dive in as soon as you can.Make offers, talk to people!

So, now I have lots of good books to read and am going to educate myself a bit before actually diving into investing. 

Don’t wait to share your ideas or goals until you think that you have all the answersI LITERALLY did everything wrong on trying to get your significant other onboard with REI.Everything ranging from giving vague answers as to why I was spending long nights on the computer searching a website about real estate to talking about buying our 1stproperty without seeking her input as to why this would be a good thing for our family.What I should have done was this:a.

I say late night parties, Check.

If you try to inspect and verify, she will simply hide the evidence or lie and say he just stayed over that one night.

The easiest way to underwrite the number for me is by looking on the short term rental platforms(airbnb/vrbo) as a potential guest and review the host's schedule/previous month reviews for occupancy and average nightly rate.

There is a meetup in Killeen happening Friday night. 

Without doing a deep dive into the deductibility of the expenses you mentioned, I would say that the expenses which are not easily allocated to a specific property (I call them "peanut butter expenses" because they are spread around) should be run through the holding LLC.

The timeframe for turning this around is 4 to 5 months as I’ll be doing the work at nights after work.

I am trying to educate myself as best I can about our local market before diving in.