Sell your guns, ammo and gold and buy quality dividend paying stocks and/or cash flowing real estate.

contractor for 15 years do the roof first that the area most water can come in and you want to stop it as soon as possible ,logic it rains from the sky so the top of the house will be the first to close up, window next but if there not some standard windows that take a few weeks to come in move to sidding use cheap ply or osb to cover into the windows come , time is money and you want to stop water before you put any finish items in.

GOOD DEALS.Learn enough to get out there and start having seller's call you, filter enough leads and you will find the quality ones, get contracts.

See if you can talk to some current tenants about quality of management, etc.As far as them not selling to family and friends... most of our family and friends think what we are doing as far as purchasing and managing rentals is interesting, but wouldn't want any part of it themselves... even if we managed the properties for them.

And you can't compare the Wilshire 5000 to quality handpicked stocks either.

I would use something like Allure which is a high quality synthetic (vinyl?)

Spend your money on quality leads and figure out how to sort out the motivated sellers from the non motivated.

You can use a standard local Realtor contract.

But will I realize any other of the standard Real Estate benefits?

Granted I'm going to heavily screen people.I guess my current plan is to take the New York State standard lease, add a bunch of items into it that I want.