we were also looking for a rental property there's nice nice brick one just outside of town butter road, looks like a perfect "brrrr" 

Someone dies because you worked on the furnace and monoxide poisoning kills them, they will cut through the so called anonymity like a hot knife through butter. 

This is your "bread and butter" 3bdr/3bath/2car housesYour "all-in" cost must be below 100x of the rent: $120K-$160K.

@Ron Russell student rentals in Tempe have been my bread and butter business for the past 15 years.

I was looking at some synthetic samples, and they just looked cheap.

Then picked red potatoes, egg plants, butter nut squash, jalopenoes, haberneros and red chillies from the garden.

Your 1st step should be to talk to a lender about different products and plans -- most 'classic' banks only like doing the cookie cutter, bread and butter Conventional/FHA/VA (3.5%-5%) owner-occupant loans and investment property loans that require a bigger down payment (20%-25%). 

I first wanted to start with whole sailing, but honestly I feel like everyone is whole sailing which is fine and another tool as an investor I could use, but I do not want that to be my bread and butter.

This is my bread and butter right there!

And when we focus on the inflation adjusted plot we see that this chart is no mic drop at all.Thanks for your comment and support Ahmet,I "dropped the mic" quite a few years ago heheWithout going down the rabbit hole, I'm pretty confident that my real estate returns over the last 3 years are much higher than what the stock market has produced.Granted, I have been super active with my investing.Now that I have built a considerable amount of wealth (I haven't waited 50 years to do so), I can be a "back seat investor" and wait patiently for the right opportunities to arise.Although real estate is my bread and butter, I'm looking forward to an even softer stock market so I can throw some change at it :)Thanks again and much success