I had a W2 I wanted to leave and thought that owning 30 rental properties would be enough to retire from corporate life.

I want to understand how many properties are bid on by third parties and how many revert to lenders.

My husband and I are still working our W-2s (and extra), but we can't move on another property until this one is at least paying for itself.

Also see if you can pull up rental  and sold comps in the area using Zillow and Redfin and you have to give a   margin of error in their estimates and see if property appreciation is there for that area in case you are thinking of building equity.

In our property, the house was open to the air in the damp environment of coastal Florida, no heat or A/C at the house.  

Or are you buying it as investment property? 

Some of the projects were with a local partner as well and then the managing chores were split between us.The lending perspective was stiff in the beginning, as I didn't have any experience at all, also no credit score, and that project was only by myself, so the leverage was low, but I could work on a low-price property to start.Fast forward 5 years, I have built a credit score with 2 credit cards under my ITIN of more than 650, and done 4 properties as experience.

Most people that I know just sit on it for decades, while paying property taxes.

Currently i am doing AirBNB Arbitrage. but i want to move into doing fix and flips and long term rentals. my plan is to continue to get more units for airbnb and slowly work my way to getting my first property. but i would love your advice on things 

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