In addition to some of the great advice above, I would put some serious work into your personal household budget and building up a substantial (6 month) emergency reserve fund.

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If you use up almost all of the 30 k in the down payment you may not have enough reserves in case of emergency.

Ever heard of division of labor, free trade theory, efficient market hypothesis?  

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Its REALLY nice to have a 2nd heat source when the main heat source has trouble because sometimes it can take a few days to resolve and with backup heat it is never an emergency!

Evacuation plans and emergency supplies are critical right now as the storm’s potential impact could be devastating.That is it for this month!

They may fall further as a consequence of all the trade war sabre rattling. 

Many are jacks of all trades and will charge you to learn to do what you hired them for.

Then I've seen more experienced investors on BP explain things using finance terminology and I'm not a finance major or work in any part of finance, trading etc - maybe I'm just dumb and am sharing two brain cells with my cat LOL I am guilty of using LTR (Long Term Rentals), MTR (Mid Term Rentals) and STR (Short Term Rentals).