Buy a slightly cheaper single family house (more ideal- since I wouldn't have to worry about the tenant next door) and just consider it rent from now on?

It not ideal but just part of the business.

I was modelling 30% of expenses I didn't even hear about the 50% rule until I got onto this forum.Most guys I deal with model 20% so I thought I was being conservative plugging in 30%!

I have capital to invest but ideally with 30 year bond yields at historical lows I'm trying to financing my places I bought in cash so I can redeploy the capital and purchase more.Any advice is greatly appreciated.CheersTim

I agree with Mr Santarelli : “60 hours per week is a lot of work time “Key things for yourself will be: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~creating a great team of contractors, project managers, agent, etcDefinitely listen to the following podcast at least twice: #15, #12, #10, and #8Most important listen to podcasts #6 with Arthur Garcia -> triple timesJust a marketing ideal~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~on your potential customer receipt maybe you can mention “ We buy houses “ , etcFYI – podcasts our locate under the “ learn “ tab

Some ideal to get you started.

Ideally, it makes a difference in the quality of the air inside the house and energy efficiency.

More than one year would be more ideal of course.

A pool isn't ideal for a rental but it sure would help with the resale in some markets.....now if you live somewhere that's cold 9 months a year that might be a different story.I have one rental that has a pool that I bought early on in my investing career and when it's vacant I can get 10 applications in a day.

I've considered starting with a multi, but most of the ones on the MLS and loopnet are around 10% cap rate which is doable, but again, not ideal.