If you buy a place to live in, definitely want to make sure you can house hack it.

Miami and Broward have some of the stricter building codes and the 40-year and 50-year certifications are definitely a good way to make sure the buildings stay in shape.

Due to all the crap going on in NC right now with tenants, I would definitely have a half way decent lease contract in place.

@Nicholas LioiYou will definitely want to go the hard money route for initial financing.

I am green to this and definitely open to opinions and any advice. 

My dad has 3 LT rental properties (one which has a huge unfinished basement and a huge old greenhouse attached that i can build 3-6units or so). he has a beginners lvl knowledge i would say of RE. but he likes new construction bc theyre brand new and will have less headache. and yes i understand it was a bunch of RE jargon haha apologies. as you can definitely tell i am just unsure of what my next step should be and im a little scared if im being honest. i dont want to make a bad decision. no i dont own my own home, i live with my famly currently. which part sounds better than real life?

And yes, it's definitely a first mortgage.

It's definitely not sexy or fun, but the unfortunate reality. 

I am definitely going to deploy this on the next deal.

The reason for this is because other agents, especially the *good* agents you definitely want to be working with won't see any value in working with someone that's working with everyone else in town.