Welcome to BP Charles.Need to search the multi threads and begin reading, there will be tons of information to digest.If you're new to RE, start off with a text book available on Amazon designed for agents to take their exam, you need to know that stuff, the basics of RE.Go through the site and the headings for topics, you can ask specific questions in the appropriate thread, there are feature that alert those that monitor those threads, at least some of us do.

I dont think you should discredit someones opinion based on their lack of properties (compared to you) on a website designed for learning about real estate. 

The portfolio is designed to cope with: inflation, deflation, rising economic growth, slowing economic growth. 

Underwriting is practically non-existent as to the needs of a seller and borrower, RMLOs will be looking at conventional guidelines and the new regulations are designed around conventional underwriting as well.

Fuses are dodgy, because your tenant could always stick in a heavier duty fuse than the circuit is designed for once they start popping fuses because they are overloading circuits (which is likely, with modern electrical needs in an older house).  

A meeting at a coffee shop turned into something much more grand.

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It all depends so much on the design of the home and the feel you are going with.

The wiring originally installed that house was designed to run a few light bulbs and perhaps a radio or two (it's not uncommon to find a single circuit per floor or only 2-4 for the entire house) and not to handle today's array of electronics.The house of that vintage, the presence of asbestos in its many forms (pipe and duct wrap for the heating system, possibly mixed in plaster, floor tiles, exterior siding, etc) is a distinct possibility.Where I do not have experience is in local insect damage - I know you have termites and undoubtedly carpenter ants (or a close relation).  

There are folks, a couple here on BP, who are adamant the organisation is the best path to a future in real estate investing and there are many here who see it as multi-level marketing scheme designed to make a few at the top of the pyramid wealthy at the expense of those recruited at the entry level.