Aloha BP Team - new to the BP community and excited to spread my wings into this real estate investing world. 

You pay a premium for a stock of Amazon, which won't get you a super high return, but is relatively safe.

I am now working in Seattle (SLU) at Amazon Web Services as a high-tech salesperson and currently reside in Capitol Hill.I wanted to introduce myself and network with other local rental property investors (anyone really).

I work with a team renting out SFH.I am the newer of the group and simply put they all say no pools.They simply aren’t open minded to it and don’t want the liabilityBut I want to educate myself so I get it’s a liability but for instance if one day I plan on having my own rental SFH or even duxplex, triplex or apartment, how or what is the best way to go about renting one with a pool?

I'm currently Reading "How to invest in Real Estate the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to getting Started" by Brandon Turner and when i"m finished i'll be purchasing "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing: How to buy, Rehab and Manage Out-of-State Rental Properties" by David Greene.I have never done any investments in my life but one can only assume doing this as a Foreign Investor is a little more difficult than being a local one but i'm sure this can be done with a strong team and the more knowledge and strategies come my way the better.I plan to buy and hold (Multi Family preferred) first in Philadelphia, PA because i have family there so figured it may be a little easier to start before i eventually branch out in the future to other states.From the podcasts, webinars and from what I've seen reading some forum posts i can tell this is an awesome community so any knowledge, strategies and words of wisdom is highly appreciated.Looking forward to your reply.Thank you.

Make a team of people you trust, but still verify everything for yourself.

You essentially need to set up a team that can work together and cross-check each other to ensure you're buying smart.

@Wyatt Morgan Do you have a CPA and a lawyer/title company on your team?

Your team will be very important to help you pull this off as your agent will help you find a great deal, your GC will help you stay on budget, and your lender needs to be able to pull off the cash out refinance on the back end.

Growth stocks like Amazon are going to have super high PE ratios, value stocks like utilities will have fairly low PE ratios.You buy amazon based on the stream of future potential earnings, because they are growing, you buy utilities for the cash flow of their current earnings being returned to you as dividends.All other things being equal, a higher percent in the 1% rule indicates a lower expected long term value of price appreciation.