If you are interested in supplementing your income at any point with your current skills, we have a friend who is a certified special education teacher and she has mentioned that she could conduct testing in her home to properly place special needs students and make quite a bit of money doing that, so that could be an option for you.

You are going to have some obstacles with buyers trying to get traditional financing.

There were too many obstacles and I thought too little cash flow for the money invested.Plus, it is turning out to be a little more difficult than I thought to come up with the down payment 🤔

In summary, you need to know your market well to determine what stage of the cycle it is currently in. Here's

With the inherent hassles dealing with the bureaucracy and ever changing guidelines, not to mention the hassle with dealing with low quality and low income tenants and areas, low rent rates, I can't imagine why anyone would even dream of dealing with Section 8! 

CoC ROI 1st year 7.72 % up to 12.49 % by year 10 with NO appreciation factored in.  Here

There WERE numerous vacant house in her area and one rental company started buying them and showing them as they were and had tenents linded up before they finished rehabbing them.

Originally in the lease, it stated that she would put the utilities in her name and pay, however, she asked if she could reimburse us. 

One of the obstacles for me is knowing how much money I will need to put into the rehab project based on just pictures from zillow or realtor. 

So my current tenant told me back in september 2018 that she needed a first floor apartment (because she got sick and needed help going up and down the stairs) completely understandable so she said she was going to start looking so i followed up a month and a half later because i hadn’t heard from her and i had a prospective tenant lined up and she said she was too weak to move in her condition which put me in a rough spot since i had a lot of interest from a new tenant so she said maybe a couple more months she could start looking again but she would let me know for sure when she did.