Paying off debt hurts your financial performance but lessens risk.

This website is awesome, and it's worth it's weight in gold as long as you stay active and ask tons of questions.

This website is worth its weight in gold, so be sure to keep at it.

The experience I would gain from this would out weight me not taking and obtaining the licenses.GO FOR IT!

Or should I acquire this deal that is positively cash flowing and lessen the amount I am paying towards my loans or just wait for the school loans until they are back into repayment? 

I put alot of weight in current property tax when doing my pro-forma, as it can easily blow up OPEX and kill a deal.

My parents are wonderful people, and I have no major impetus to move out other than I want to feel independent and lessen their burden.

While its hard to get a sense from someone typing concerns, some of the findings include:Visible water in property basement on back wallFirst floor bathroom immediately above this back wall - it was an addition put on the property after it was built, and it seems like it may have either foundation or connectivity issues with the original house.Temporary Lally columns added in the basement and not secured with concrete footers -- the seller indicated the property was a laundromat and those were put in to help with the additional weight of the laundromat but the property has long since converted to residential.The boiler pressure regulators and backflow preventers are missing in the basementI should mention I'm not that handy and items like this would be contractor-based, anyway.

There are enough easier jobs where they won't have to take on the added risk.It also seems like a normal footing would work but I suppose the soil and weight of the structure may dictate otherwise.

& something strong & light weight to put it on top of- just high enough that you notice the pot.A wooden shed in the back or side yard if the property doesn't already have one.