I too have a 3 month old daughter and want to use real estate investing as a means to replace my full time job and spend more time at home with her.

Assumptions:Self managedOwner pays garbage tenant pays other utilitiesRent first year $390 per month Section 8Purchase price $25,000http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/Jeff1/file/sf-rental-income-and-expense-20-years

. - I do appreciate the message and you're right, our users deserve just as much celebration as we do.

Joel Owens"Flyover" definitions would be a nice addition, but may be tough to implement in forum posts without users adding the appropriate tags as they type.There are a couple pages I have used:http://www.biggerpockets.com/glossary.htmlhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/abbrev.htmlPlus there may be others.

When demand is high, they command very high rates.

Here you go:http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/JasonScott/file/20-sfh-rental-analysis

I suggest you look to another property as a Sub-2, just doesn't sound like there is a good command of the circumstances here, IMO

I have no interest in stirring up controversy, particulary as I am still practically a brand new user here, and such actions will have no benefit to me that I am aware of.

Facebook now has over 1,000,000,000 active users.

However my experience since has not been great.This may be old news to every but me, since I had only banked at huge places like Chase and BOfA before using this small bank, I didn't realize the drawbacks:--long hold time (9 days) for large checks deposited--wire transfer process is antiquated and not user friendly.