I just moved to Florida from Colorado, and I am starting my journey in real estate investing by purchasing a single family home.  I'm planning on the buy and hold strategy while creating passive rental income.  I'm he...

Haven't researched it in depth  yet.What are the pros and cons? 

I love the depth of information everyone contributes here. 

Haven't researched it in depth yet.What are the pros and cons? 

You covered various topics which need in-depth discussion to understand.

I appreciate the tangible value (of real estate... people will always need a place to live) vs the volatile value of a stock on paper that may not be worth the ink its written in or too easily misrepresented or manipulated.

I am looking to build up our depth when it comes to vendors so anyone that can refer to me any of the below in the south suburbs from Lansing to Orland Park and up into southside Chicago neighborhoods. 

I will arrange a meet to get payment to cover cost of screening and take the opportunity to do more in depth personal interview before continuing with screening. 9 times in 10 by the end of that initial interview I will know what the screening results will show.

The well driller ended up running into  problems with a high volume but very low quality aquifer at a shallow depth that blew out the well multiple times.

I tried to buy an REO rental townhome in Houston in the depths of housing recession in 2011/2 when I lived here once previously.