It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits of investing.

We would do a safety check and enter the property.

My basic assumption is I would be trading a certain level of cash flow for increased appreciation over a period of 10 years.

Personally, I'd prefer dollar-tree ones (if basic, uncluttered look) over none in the room (bedroom, whatever) because I want to encourage trash being put away.

I'm basically looking for input in the following:Option 1: Buy a couple of properties and split the money from the 1031 exchange for the down payments.

It's basically dead in most areas.

If I gave you a list of 100 deals on a sheet of paper with just a few basic pieces of information you could apply the 1% rule and eliminate the vast majority of them and then only focus on a small number to consider evaluating further.

We were basically on call whenever the laundromat was open.

First, I'd suggest getting familiar with the basics of real estate investing—property types, financing, and market analysis.

But basically no take up.