All the home owners would literally advertise spare rooms for rent by putting a sign out on the street.

Drugs?

When you get to Norwood, depending on the specific street, you may be in more of a "take what you can get". 

Just off Burlingame street.

These comps are all within about 3-4 blocks of the house and one was the same street and sold 5 days before for a little over $560k.

so, the LLC is not more costly.Since you are looking at 7unit property, your liability is going up.Many people will create a LLC using the street address as the name.

But i will keep educating myself and hopefully atleast get one deal so i can show my 80 year old mother that i can make it as an investor.. i love RE and wanted to be an agent years ago but i aslo had a drug problem and wound up with some felonies.. now im over two years sober and my family is proud of me.. i try to help the home owners not irritate them.. my dream is to be like several of yall thats on this thread but until i can buy my own property i pray i can atleast find a buyer for the leads i have coming in.. thank yall for all the education and information.

What's the street like, the immediate neighbors like? 

You need Water, Wind, Fire and now Insurance against the "Young and the Useless" demonstrators in the street.

Some people have suggested that this might end up with street riots, class warfare and maybe even a civil war.