,I have personal experience and exposure to their products and services.

Bill Gulley You make an excellent point.

., 6%, $3,200 monthly paymentmonthly gross rents currently are about $14k, with 5 vacancies, so total potential monthly gross rent is about $16-17kThere are many on BP who warn against buying rentals in marginal areas (75% of my tenants are S8) but also some who think it's a good opportunity (see Lisa Phillips' excellent post on War Zones).I used to live in St.

I was able to get excellent financing on them normally 4% 30 year mortgages, but required a lot of money down. $25K per home.

Would rather not use excel and spreadsheets.

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We both have state jobs, she is a teacher and I am the production manager at our university's arena.

I am currently in the process of getting my license right now, but it is costing me about $2500 by the time I am done....and that doesn't include the monthly fees (MLS, etc.) that I will be paying once I am licensed as well as the member dues to the national and local Realtor associations that I will pay yearly.The difference between me and you right now is that I have excellent credit, I have a low debt to income ratio, I know where every penny goes in my monthly budget and I have cash reserves.

Another CT investor .. excellent!

Plenty of support so keep engaged with the forums and free resources on the site (podcasts are an excellent start!).