I plan to owner occupy and I was originally looking at duplexes and figured that I will definitely be able to handle one tenant and understand that this will be a great learning experience going this route but I lean towards valuing my time (as we all do..) so lately I have been thinking about another option.

Trying to figure the place out. 

As for the TSP, figure out your long-term plan. 

I figured that if the (literally) ugly side of investing didn’t scare me, I could do this thing.

I figure I would have about $50,000 in it once I finish the upstairs.

Is there a "cheat sheet" of some kind on where to find certain figures?   

I have even had to pay a water bill from 2009 even though the property had changed hands 3-4 times since then and the water company never figured it out until now.

I have a lady who took out a mortgage on her property for 391 K she has paid 7 K in the property her first 10 years of owning the property was straight interest and she did not get to make payments towards the properties total cost until after the 10 years was up which is when she just paid the 7K she wants out of the home the property value has dropped to 350k which means that her mortgage that she owes the Stihl 391 so in order to get her back current I want to figure out a strategy that can get her back current that I can also make money on in a real estate deal transaction and also get her out of a tight situation

I'm pretty new to it myself, still figuring out how it works, which part of it I want to be involved with...I know one suggestion I hear a lot about is going to Real Estate Investment meetings/ Associations.

I have a lady who took out a mortgage on her property for 391 K she has paid 7 K in the property her first 10 years of owning the property was straight interest and she did not get to make payments towards the properties total cost until after the 10 years was up which is when she just paid the 7K she wants out of the home the property value has dropped to 350k which means that her mortgage that she owes the Stihl 391 so in order to get her back current I want to figure out a strategy that can get her back current that I can also make money on in a real estate deal transaction and also get her out of a tight situation