Sorry A newbie question is it better to have a rental property paid off making $800 after taxes and insurance or to borrow against that house to buy another house so after mortgage payment you would make let's say $300 a month and the new property you make $500 after everything is paid so now you are back to the $800 a month I don't understand the benefit of leveraging the first house to make the same amount of money sorry if this is a dumb question I was reading an article saying you should leverage rental properties 

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They have the most vested interest in you buying a solid deal, because they have to manage it every day.Just be careful of turnkey operators as they have a bigger vested interest in selling than managing.You might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes

Here's a good article that discusses the tax benefits are various types of corporations.

The Right Way to Invest in ApartmentsIf you’re thinking about investing in apartments, this article will save you a lot of time and grief.

On the topic of mentors, you might find this article helpful: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/r...It's not necessarily a positive mention, but there it is:Local buyers bid against one another as well as against investors who now comprise about a fifth of annual home sales nationally.

A quick Google search brought this up:https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...This article from march of this is saying lenders won't be able to sell their loans to the secondary market if they or Fannie/Freddie have too many "investment-type" loans. 

I also recommend you read this article I wrote for Bigger Pockets titled How to Invest in Real Estate Before Turning 21.

I've never done this, and I barely bother to read the articles and posts about it since it doesn't interest me.