If you are going to do it yourself and be successful, you must know the law inside and out and learn how to resolve problems before they happen.If only someone wrote a practical how-to book for DIY Landlords...

Since your goal is to build a portfolio of rental properties, you’re right to weigh both the financial and practical aspects of this decision.

Hey everyone, if anyone has any questions or wants to know the best practices for borrowing/lending out money, let's chat below! 

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I did not put any of his info into practice and stopped listening to the podcasts after a while because lease options didn't really appeal to me, but he seemed like a decent guy and the podcast had a lot of value at no cost. 

More than likely, you will need to meet ingress and egress requirements - Illegal renting is tempting, but practically suicide.

https://www.kts-law.com/practice-areas/landlord-tenant-law/Good luck!

If your intent is to go ahead with the purchase how do you get around the inspection fee...another words do investors as a regular practice PAY an inspector to inspect the property even though its not really yours yet ...and may never be??

Splitting services is definitely ideal, but not always possible or practical.  

They pretty much all do it, some with predatory lending type practices on this board.