Always do your homework and gain the real estate knowledge you need prior to talking to anyone about anything where you will need real estate knowledge.

We would love to move there to be close to them and raise our kids.

Yeah, I was just kidding...Milwaukee is brutal...It's Atlanta where I've seen multiple houses with cracked rafters from extra layers of shingles.

My name is Marshall Downs and I'm new to the site from Benton Harbor, MI which is about 90 minutes from Chicago and Grand Rapids, 30 minutes from South Bend, IN and I LOVE REAL ESTATE...no kidding.

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Be sure to do your homework, and check out the beginner guide here on BP if you haven't already.

I am the guy that gets the call at 2 AM when the alarm company sees that the power "blinked off" for a second, the one that the tenants call to complain when the common hallway is not clean enough (because of the group of kids that just walked out of the sandwich franchise that threw trash everywhere), etc.

He is from out of state and showed up with his pregnant wife and 2 small kids.

I ask, mainly because I grew up in Nova Scotia and spent a lot of time around the Bras d'Or Lake Lake region and Sydney, Cape Breton as a kid.

Easy to say pre-brain-numbing homework assignments.