I don't have any properties due to being a broke college kid (I know that's not an excuse) but am looking to get started now. 

"we had the greatest time ever the view was gorgeous and they weren't kidding about the road" Just have to make sure you're selling apples to people that want to buy apples.

The other big thing is to be prepared to teach kids how to live in a house for the first time on their own.

Stats:Divorced 40 year old man with 5 kids. 

I’m not planning to leave anything to my kids except hopefully the knowledge and drive to be the best versions of themselves physically spiritually emotionally charitably mentally and financially.

You will also want to explore the great tax benefits available right now with cost segregation on any new property or your existing property.

Here is a link you may want to explore that should give you the answers you are looking for: https://www.irs.gov/credits-de...

This was thrown at me as I was looking for just a single multi family Home in the area, so I wanted to know if exploring these options were reasonable as a first time rental buy.  

Hi everyone- I just joined Biggerpockets and we are starting to explore potential OOS markets to invest into. 

There are creative strategies out there, I think one worth exploring for this particular scenario is the "subject to " .