There's no one set rent amount for a 2-bedroom house, for example.

Anything weird that code enforcement is going to be all over you to fix immediately?

You can do all at once or chunk it over several years or whatever amounts and timeline makes sense for you. 

In determining the amount of reasonable compensation under §162(a)(1), it is necessary to consider both the amount of deferred and nondeferred compensation. 606 The Tax Court and several Courts of Appeals have adopted five factors in determining the reasonableness of compensation:...The Second and Ninth Circuits have held that the reasonableness of compensation must be assessed from the perspective of a hypothetical or independent investor, not as a separate autonomous factor but instead as “a lens through which the entire analysis should be viewed,” and requiring the application of four factors:

You just have to keep at it and remind the brokers you contact you are in the hunt for loans.For the amount of money you are starting with, you might want to indicate you are willing to fractionalize to get into a deal.

Mutual investments allow investors to invest any amount of money they choose toward numerous properties at the same time, regardless of the property-to-capital ratio.

Initially renting is likely cheaper, but when you purchase with a fixed rate loan most of your expenses are fixed cost.  

Prefab is great because it reduces the amount of tradesman out on the site.

Get to know different strategies including buy and hold, fix and flip, wholesaling as well as defining your objectives.

One day you may get a check in the mail for the full amount.