Quote from @Adam Czachor: If you're going to be an absentee landlord, I would start by looking for highly skilled property managers that can handle whatever you purchase.

It could very well start happening at any time.

Congrats on getting started on your goal.

@Nicholas Olsoni would start with some smaller multifamily and then go from therecan you house hack a few first?

Hello, I am fairly new to real estate investing and i want to believe im in a prime situation to start.

You even customize your cleaning checklists, request photos and notes, and be notified at the start and end of the job. 

The tenant contacts me that Sunday and asked about prorating being that it was the middle of the month or starting the lease in June (???)

This seems bogus but wanted to see if others had similar thoughts:https://boundlessestates.com/new-law-starting-july-1st-landl...

For income reasons, you can qualify with a non contingent offer letter (salary position) before you start working.  

I believe the one good thing about that spreadsheet is that it can be adjusted by the State you live in. because costs are different in every State the estimate sheet i believe is based on a multiplier for the corresponding State, as most cost estimating books are based. that program does break down a lot of information for you and i think it is a good program, one thing you may want to check is if the program updates every year with current multipliers for the States ( program is probably based on a starting average value for each thing and then the multiplier changes as prices for materials change) and you want to make sure it does that.