At your age I would start with a primary residence and house hack a small part of it for STR.

Care to cite statute or FL case law supporting your claim?

Since I reside in Fishtown I think I can assist a bit.Does the basement have a legal exit from the basement (Modern or Older Bilco Door/Ladder to get out)If not, the basement would not be a legal finished basement.

Hello, before I give my story, my wife and I are looking for a 1-2 bedroom apartment we have a monthly budget of 1750, we both have poor credit, my wife Ariana, Graduated from Brown University last year, she will be 48 in May this year and is currently an Operations Manager II at kent hospital through Sodexo, she makes 75k a year, and approximately 4500 after taxes a month, she has no criminal history, as to our poor credit, we had to choose between paying our rent and electricity during covid, or pay our credit cards, we have never missed a rent payment, and have lived in the same residence for the last 4 years with no issues, we are looking for an apartment because our landlord wants to renovate his building. with that said...I am writing to proactively disclose information that may appear on a background check.In 2009, I was involved in an incident that resulted in a felony charge.

Equity REITs (not mortgage REITS) are truly great though and have returned 1.5-2.0% more than SP500 over last 20/25/50 years in multiple retrospective studies, and are a great value purchase right now due to being beaten down by fast FED rate rise last 2 yrs, however to get best tax benefits, buy them only within a tax advantaged account like 401k/IRA etc as the big dividends are taxed very high at earned income rates.Good luck, wishing you and wife all the best on your investing journey :)               ps don't ever keep cash at a bank, park in your brokerage account and buy USFR, a wisdom tree ETF, pays 5.39% interest, holds only 8 week US treasury floating rate notes, so you don't need to worry about FDIC or SPIC insurance as only way US govt doesn't pay is if we get nuked, then you won't much care about cash yields, just non-radioactive water. 

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Does the real estate attorney take care of all the paper work ? 

IM actually getting the repairs taken care of for another investor on BP that used this clown. 

We have taken care of engineers and permits.Assume that there is reasonable access from the rear of the property - and these are all attached row homes.If anyone has recommendations for a good subcontractor we are all ears.  

Be very careful.