A skilled fixer guy can always find a dump somewhere to make a few bucks on.

And yes, I'm going through the pre-apprroval process right now (should be wrapped up very soon).Questions are mostly specific to those areas, but I'm also curious about:- What are the trade-offs of a 15 vs 30 year mortgage for a rental?

Fortunately, I was occupying the property at the time and knew the trades so was able to cut some costs.

You want to work with an investment team that already has the skills.

Sometimes at the 6 month timeframe I find myself looking forward to trading them in.

I am leaning more towards a tri or quadplex (Fort Worth, TX) since I have been hearing it takes the same Property management skills as a duplex and generates cashflow every month besides the duplex would just be covering my rent, don't get me wrong I would absolutely love that just starting off as well... but would rather have the extra cashflow coming in to help put towards another property ASAP if at all possible.

We found a pro photographer and trade her a weekend to do all of our pictures...what a huge difference between hers and the cell-phone ones I had taken...!

During the second semester, I applied to become a member of the mentorship program that allows participants to learn and develop resume, interview, and network skills, along with learning and applying technical skills such as real estate accounting and valuation fundamentals.

It's common to use properties in your portfolio as stepping stones and trading them out after a period of time utilizing great tools such as the 1031 exchange.

A note from the investor on Gordon - "knows the soil around each part of town and most respected engineer around"Do you have a GC you use who is skilled at getting properties into rent ready condition?