My wife and I have located a property we think is perfect to flip. 

Podcasts and books are the perfect way to make you a strong investor in the future.

But it is perfectly fine to complete the 1031 exchange and then immediately transfer the property into a different entity to begin your new period of productive use.3.

IIRC, perfect combo is bank card, major credit card, and when you can qualify, an Amex

To share some numbers on how many projects are being submitted with multiple units... see below data on the permit applications for City of San Diego, which is a combo of public data + our analysis on text fields describing the projects (to extract things like unit counts... it's directional, not perfect data).

It is not a perfect platform but it does work pretty well and they are very open to comments about what could be better.

It's not perfect - I have pine trees, so the needles still get through and the gutters still have to be cleaned occasionally - but it definitely helps a lot.

In addition to books, simply engaging the community in the landlording forums can provide you a wealth of info in this area, most of which is hands on (which most books lack).Vegas - You are in a perfect location (from my perspective) for landlording.

I stay far clear of holding these types of properties and am glad to pay a PM to do the "dirty work" for me, regardless of the additional cost and this is the perfect example to answer this common question of newbies: Should I buy a multi unit and live in one of them so that I can get a owner occupied loan rather than a NOO loan and also be able to avoid paying cap gains sinc eit is a personal residence?

I don't think there is a perfect answer but in general, most folks will quit as soon as the going gets tough.