His mom lives in Vancouver, Canada.

The first year was challenging meaning had a tenant but not saving, it was just making my living expenses cheaper.

I can't imagine how much extra time is spent without having automation.

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

This works best when the seller is motivated and open to flexible terms.4.BRRRR Strategy (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat)– If you find the right undervalued property, you can finance the rehab with short-term funding and then refinance into a long-term loan, pulling most or all of your money back out.5.House Hacking– If you’re open to living in your investment, you can use an FHA loan (as low as 3.5% down)to buy a multi-unit, live in one unit, and rent out the others.

They EASILY paid $30k extra to get seller financing with $150k down.

If you're living in an A area and cannot afford an A area property (hard to find anyway these days) and you need to drive a while to even get to an area you are interested in, door knocking is not for you.BUDGET: can you afford to do 1000 postcard mailings a month for 6 months straight?

Recently I’ve been living next to an illegal and poorly run STR operation and I can now better empathize with folks who strongly oppose them.

I'm assuming traveling nurses don't know many people in the area and would know someone to live with. 

They will promise upgraded furniture or extras to keep your money.