Maintenance costs will be such that you will be continually spending and topping up your reserve maintenance funds.You will have no positive cash flow to put on your primary home.  

Why spend 20 hours trying to wholesale this deal when you could spend those 20 hours finding and selling more marketable deals?

I have cash to spend and am currently looking into the sub-$50,000 price point in North Alabama.

We will spend more time in unconscious states and in long-term care. 

In the meantime, I was wondering what advice is out there to do in the meantime to allow myself to be best prepared.Currently, I spend most of my time reading literature and educating myself on Real estate investing.

In the end ill spend about the same amount of money, since ill have to go with tile in the kitchen now.

I was super tempted to fly to Florida when my tenant abandoned but it was better to spend those few hundred bucks on the rehab instead.If you're serious about out of state investing, I highly recommend this book.

I just started spending about 20 minutes a day looking at the MLS after work.

My husband is a teacher and looks great on a loan application, but he is our breadwinner and doesn't have much time to spend on real estate.  

I DID NOT buy their coaching, but I did spend a RIDICULOUS amount of money for coaching from RICH DAD POOR DAD and from PROVISION (Tom Wheelwrights company.....