Therefore, it's worthwhile to learn how to assess the potential "traffic patterns" of a house, and assess the ways in which a property's floorplan could be reconfigured (this involves understanding issues like load-bearing walls, routing of plumbing, electricity & HVAC, code restrictions, etc.)

Has hour highest debt load and is at 25% occupancy, which is good at this stage of the rent up. 

Build experience and then step-up your as-is value range and be able to handle more than 1 deal at a time and then start holding when you can pick up a 4 unit building for 650k and you need 130k for your portion of the down payment and now you have it.Can't start your career with a grandslam in the World Series with two outs and the bases loaded. 

What are you charging per load for each unit?

It's possible to do from a distance, people do it all the time, but I just think it's loaded with more risk if you try to invest out of state too early on.Anyways with all of that being said I have a friend who is buying in St Louis right now.

Check to make sure your current service has enough amperage to support whatever loads you plan on adding.

Good contractors are always busy and worth their weight in gold (and no, I'm not a contractor) I've seen people wait weeks to take action on a quote then be outraged costs have gone up and availability has gone down.

And a no-brainer and may be worth their weight in gold if they are a good agent.Lastly, ultimately they are there to protect you.

Without that, you are just dealing with dead weight on your household budget AND your ability to qualify for any future loans because to a lender it will look like your DTI is too high.I also want to address the low rate portion of your post.

Thankyou Chris. this is really helpful knowledge. i am more so interested to off load to hedge funds some of my real estate portfolio. any experience there?