Taking taxes into account when purchasing a building is also so important to find tax savings or like you're saying - plan ahead to avoid any surprise tax expenses.

@Matthew GillSounds familiar, only about four years ahead of you.

I get listings pushed to me from reliable realtors that know what I am looking for in several markets, for the criteria I care about, to stay in touch with what is selling and at what price.

Otherwise you will have to evict (or move in and be their room mate, or just go ahead and start your remodeling project with them living there, lol).

I went ahead a got couple of quotes for the repair.

Need a little advice from some seasoned investors.We are in the process of refinancing our primary residence and should have about $70k to use towards purchasing another single family house to rent out - using it as the 20% down payment.In our current refinancing, we are pushing our maximum for DTI ratio.With purchasing the next house, will an underwriter use the potential rent income as Income? 

Alot of contractors I see in my area have a tough time getting ahead simply because their not good at managing the business aspect of the business. 

I lived in the house.Skip ahead to today. 

I'd also go ahead and start shopping lenders for the refi- while you are still 6 months of seasoning away from the refinance, make sure you have one lined up that will do the refinance. 

Just a heads up* I tend to lead my community to doing runs-jogs-walks.