(You can eventually buy a property IN your IRA, but that's more advanced than where you are right now, but you'll get to that point in time.)

Thought that was a great concept of utilizing a 2x rent:income.Credit score is a point in time. 

Thus, a) we're still far enough away from that point in time that we've not yet worried too much about it and b) at present we believe we can achieve our financial goals with fewer than 15 properties.Hope this helps  

However keep in mind there is a cost in time and risk of increasing rates, spending time looking for the best rate.

I haven't dug in deep yet, so it is possible they have terrible crime problems, or something else that will make it less interesting, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised.

At no point in time during this part of the deal do you need to consult with a title company.

Being a person that believes in God, things happen for a reason and so me not graduating in time is his funny way of showing me to consider other career paths.

In times like these, when deals can be harder to come by its easy to let yourself allow for optimal outcomes to make the numbers work.   

I do not intimately know all of the #'s, but they keep scaling up as well, just not as fast.With your model and @George Azita you are building a business. 

The transaction cost of a home is an agreement, at that place in time, between two parties.