Hi Manuel,a great way to get started once you have a full time job and proper down payment is to look for a nice two family home that you can buy and live in one apt. and rent out the other.This is a great way to get your feet wet and see if you are cut out for this business.

will not bore you with the numerous court fillings and communications where we tried to explain common sense like "hey, remember when we TOLD you they were doing this, and we WANTED to evict and YOU wouldn't let us".

I'll post some articles once I have my feet wet and make sure I don't repeat what others have already talked about.Jerry

I have a fair amount of time as well as capital for my first deal but I would like to start off slow ( and small) to get my feet wet and learn along the way.

MDF won't hold up well in wet areas, or steam/humidity areas.

Long story short, he would not redo the roof, so it cost me another $11,500 to have the new roof pulled up and replace the rotten wet boards underneath.

The best thing I ever did was hire it out.Before I did that the best thing was having the right tools.If you plan to do a lot of this you can buy a laser, a ridgid 10" wet saw, an angle grinder with a sharp diamond blade, and a standard tile cutter in the $200-$600 range with a sharp wheel.You want to lay all of your full tiles first and then come back for your cuts.

We've closed numerous short sales with Bank of America as the short sale lender.

Cab companies use this type of LLC many times, where one LLC has numerous cabs and each cab is its own entity LLC for protection of the main LLC and the other cabs."

Not impossible, but I'd suspect they redid kitchens and baths, painted numerous times, replaced carpets and the like.