Your mortgage payment is $845/mo out of a gross revenue of $1200/mo.Put differently, your mortgage eats up 70% of your revenue right off the bat.

And this side of my family is Cuban, so I'll need to brush up my Spanish and be ready to eat pork.I don't expect (and hope) to have any RE issues during these few days.

This will create leverage for his other properties, and this slumlord well end up eating the deferred maintenance, which he thought he could pass on to someone else.Sebastian

I bet some people even paid to get out of them.same thing in Wayne county the tax's water bills etc etc can just eat your lunch.. the properties really are not worth 500 they have negative values in my mind.

In looking for properties in NJ, I can't see why anyone would invest in some towns in NJ. My question is would you invest near where you live but have higher RE taxes OR invest in properties farther away but less RE t...

Usually in real estate it is so "dog eat dog" and people do not share information (without receiving payment). 

I mean, who wants to eat that sandwich?  

Eat and sleep it - at your age, with Biggerpockets as a resource, you have an absolute outstanding opportunity in front of you.

Or, you could take a small sampling and begin testing.It's really the old question about 'How do you eat an elephant'? 

claiming anyone is making a choice between eating and paying tax is laughable at best (especially considering generous state food subsidy programs).less laughable than before as we seem to have more and more vindictive political types that think in these "get even with them" ways.