@Scott Costello really active here on Bigger Pockets had set up his own site w/ a professional web developer who was great... but wasn't stellar at setting up a site that performs well... and it got ranked well and got some leads... but then he setup a Carrot site and gets 5x more leads through his Carrot site vs. his custom site.

This is  pretty spot on,  Its also  safe to say that town  off the speedline like  Audobon, Collingswood  and all of the Haddons were  mostly built in the early  1900's  similar to Philadelphia so even with a  rehab  I would  higher the  cost of  repairs  withholdings  close  to  8 to 10% and  youll have  the majority with Knob and Tube!  

I am an active duty buy & hold investor who has been winging it for the past 10 years.  

Our goal is to increase our passive income - and also our active and interest income earnings - which should be a common goal between all real estate investors.We are bilingual - that is English or Spanish - so we welcome both languages when receiving messages or emails.

All major cities in Texas see highest appreciation ever in last few years... still prices are very low compare to coasts.

There's conflicting evidence on the first $5,000 for a "passive" real estate investment online and I couldn't tell if the $5,000 rule is only in effect for "active" investments.3.

I understand there could be more here that I'm not seeing, but no major fixes popped out at me.Thanks for the insight!

I kept that license active for about 30 years.Regardless of what I had, I felt more comfortable with the construction business.  

We're hoping that we can manage to get tenants to turn over in the summer, where we can spend a couple of weeks down in DC combining a little vacation in the place with fixing things up and finding a new tenant).Of course I made some mistakes already, too, but I think I'll get away with them this time...So after getting my feet wet, I've been reading about REI, and we do have cash / equity (our primary home is just about paid off) to stuff with, so now I'm considering to get into it in a non-accidental way, and it seems more prudent to look at our local area (NH seacost), but it turns out I have little idea about the purchase/rental market here, and it doesn't seem all that easy to find out (in NoVA, at least, there's a very active market, while here prices seem to fluctuate wildly for no obvious (to me) reason.

This isn't the best area but it certainly isn't the worse.Some drug activity in the area but they move the corners they are selling off of every few months.