.- No PMI (note that this isn't the "lender paid PMI with a bumped rate" that is often advertised as "no PMI," this is literally and without ambiguity no PMI).- Normal Fannie 30YF and not some crazy portfolio mortgage, in spite of the above two bullet points.You will want your lender to go over what terms/conditions to include in the purchase contract.

Que up @Dave Van Horn who literally wrote the book on this. 

Become financially literate, and find ways to make your money work for you. 

This is literally the first property I ever emailed on and made a low offer because why not right?

I put in request to fix everything that the inspector found, literally everything so I'm sure they will say no.

Sometimes you get a property back ampty and clean and you can literally move in the next day.

There are literally hundreds of these types of posts a day by newbies.

For the last several months I have worked with her to pay me back on a bi-weekly basis to pay off her $1k+ 2018 water bill (Literally just finished these payments).

This book is perfect if you want to syndicate larger deals and is full of actionable content and literally a step by step guild to do what Joe did with large value-add apartments.If you are looking to get started with smaller multi family deals, “How to make Big money in small apartments” by Lance Edwards is a great resource and refers you back to many online resources.

So they tend to work with other good people.Screening is the primary way of protecting your investment because it's 100% easier to prevent a problem than to try to mitigate damage (figuratively or literally) after you have one.Obviously get a security deposit, though you're limited to one month's rent as I mentioned last night.That sound basic, but I can't tell you how many tenants want to move in and then give you the security deposit over time on a "payment plan".