You may need to flip the pantry, island and doorway to work with the fire place wall and play with dimensions, but you get the idea. 

Just bought my first property and now very interested on continuing to build my portfolio.

If you give it on the first, you are sort of playing with fire.

The grind continues.

I figured this would be a good place to go to continue my real estate education.

(Bankrate.com, calculators, show amortization schedule, then add in extra payments either monthly, yearly, or one-time, to get your payoff date)  Play with the numbers, decide what your goals are and see what works out best for you.

Liberty like isn't too far (my boys used to play baseball up there) so if you need anything, don't hesitate to contact me!

Does the neighbor play loud music and have a pit bull on a chain?

The first time a tenant is late, I talk to them and clearly lay out what will happen moving forward if the issue continues. 

Companies continue to flock from the west and east coasts to this area.