Call their referencesObviously you have to be extremely by the book in terns of equal housing opportunity...From there, when you sign the lease, expectation setting is big.

I do not have much knowledge on real estate but I am the hitting  books: BRRRR by David Greene, Estimating Rehab cost by J.Scott, Investing real estate with no/low money down by Brandon Turner and finally, Rental property investing by Brandon Turner.Outside of real estate, I enjoy swimming, bike riding, watching anime, playing video games and interests in the stock/house market.Excited to learn and connect with you all!

FX, Crypto, Flipping Houses, Sub2, Gold and Silver, Rare Earth Metals, Day Trading, Bernie Madoff, Vending Machines, Car Washes, Amway, any MLM.....whatever the dream of the day is.In all of them, you can make money, you can get rich, but almost always it takes a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, tears, missed holidays, working on weekends, money, risk, stress.

Over the years we spoke with many investors asking us to teach them how we were flipping 200 houses a year.

Finally, I look at housing starts, price points, infrastructure and safety - both cities are comparable, although Huntsville seems a bit better.

I sold the house for $180,000 and made a decent profit

I am actually a novice on this field, l have a property for short let and vacation rental in Kissimmee (Florida); and I actually want to take up the management of the property myself and needs help on how to do this.Also, l need a nice, cheap buildable land or a nice cheap reformable/redeemable house within or around Kissimmee.

For example, lets assume the house is worth $100k now.

@Troy Zapp, if the wife is on board, start exploring the investment strategy of house hacking to minimize monthly expenses and watch your income snowball.

This assumes the market rent for the unit I will be moving into.My goals from entering real estate are 1. add diversification in my investments (right now heavily invested in stocks) and 2. house hack, so that tenants pay part of the mortgageIn my current market, I have two options: a. buy older houses, renovate, bring the rent to market --> this will cashflow, but needs a lot of time investment which I don't haveb. buy turnkey properties: --> renovated and already occupied by tenants but may not be cash flow positive.I found a property that's type B.