To get my bearings straight, I contact my realtor/mentor with more experience than anyone I know.

It is not absolutely necessary, but it makes keep things straight easier.Also a separate credit card for each house is nice as well.

Being creative and shopping for a good mortgage lender that knows ahead of time if they provide loans for such properties makes a difference.

Thanks ahead of time for your input!

I would love to go ahead and buy one, but am wondering what people who buy in that area think of current prices.

Now at first glance that just looks like a straight 15% of the houses are taken away from people who want to buy them a their primary residence.

They had previously rented this rural property out for very cheap without raising the rent for 10 straight years.

Did you start out with SFR then move to MF or did you go straight to MF.

If you want to learn you need find someone like myself who will sit with you one-on-one, ask you about what you seriously want to do, what you can do and then give you all the tools you need e.g. a business plan, business models and philosophies that help to keep you on a straight path when when you have business problems.You will never get that around a bunch of Big Mouth Wannabes and real estate brokers who are so ignorant and desperate for business they need to go to club meetings to pick on newbies because they don't have the brains to build a company with investors like myself.

What techniques have you all used to get a head start on a property?