They also took four weeks to cough up the miles after we fulfilled the minimal requirements.The next card was the Chase Sapphire Preferred Visa.

Of course, you could consider joining one of these sooner rather than later, but I gave you some free stuff to wet your whistle first... and it's good stuff at that.

I have connections to some forested land (about 45 acres, some of which is wet/lowland) in rural, northern Wisconsin that is across the road from a public boat landing on a beautiful, clean lake.

My name is Luke and I'm starting to get my feet wet in the real estate market here in Charleston, SC.

With cashflow, you may make less money in the end, but you'll be able to get in the game and get your feet wet with a low risk asset (losing 40k hurts a lot less than losing 1M).

More and more cities are not allowing them.A duplex is not a bad way to get started and gets your feet wet.  

Want to get my feet wet first, then go into the multi-family part.

My advice, for what it is worth, is to get your feet wet with something cheaper. 

And Durham's is a great product for holes that are dry and indoors - but the rotted wood likely got wet ...The minwax product is intended for this purpose.

I'm assuming a long term rental with ideas to eventually convert it to short term after getting my feet wet with being a landlord.