I work as a nurse, so I do normally have four days off per week that are free to explore real estate further but starting next month I will be working nights for the foreseeable future. 

If you want someone else to put up the money you need to provide significant value to the transaction.

There are pluses and minuses to this.

That is the thing that will eventually get you over the hump, not talking to realtors who, for the most part, don't know anything about working with investors and have heard the "once I get this first property, I am going to keep going" dialogue a million times.If you want to market yourself, the best thing to do is to walk a five-block radius that you really want to buy in.

Welcome to BiggerPockets, Korinne! 

Because I live in a neighborhood that has no crime but it shows up as very high crime because we had two neighbors who would call the cops over each others dogs barking so it lit it up to show it as negative…

We're looking into camera options to monitor vacant properties being advertised for rent. 

Quote from @Kaushik Sarkar: Hi,I am interested to talk to SDIRA custodians preferably local to the DFW Texas area to expand my investments in real estate.

I am just being more careful on the price because I know it will take five months so I want it to be worthwhile if I am going to do something like that.

Welcome to BiggerPockets, Kyle!