The catch is we need a property with a fenced in yard due to the fact we have 2 dogs and a potbellied pig.

With time and experience I would like to become a full time real estate investor.I am interested in starting out simple with bird dogging and wholesale until I learn and obtain the necessary skills and knowledge required for buy and hold investing.My experience with real estate is the purchase of 2 homes and the selling of one.

They asked if they could have a dog and we said no. 

I know you will not like to spend another 100-150 bucks on this, but there are bed-bug sniffing dogs that are supposedly much more reliable than just a visual inspection by the Orkin man.  

That's exactly the kind of behavior the seasoning period is trying to discourage. 

I've had issues with tenants getting dogs in violation of their leases.  

Driving for dollars, shopping MLS, trustee sales, direct marketing, bird dogs, and more just to name a few.

Ready to expand into the market - I need information1.  What Emerging markets for multifamily are solid targets in the western states??2.  Do you have Protocol of Successful ways to prospect & attract value added ...

Dog feces indoors, carpet stains, stove looked like it was 50 years of neglect(was brand new). 

Hi @Todd Moriarty,Loan servicers (Huntington Bank it appears, in this case) have a perverse incentive to make dropping PMI hard (or impossible) without a refinance, because they want a refi out of it (a shiny new product to sell on the secondary market for $$ as part of a MBS).Your GF can refinance to drop PMI if Huntington Bank will not simply allow her to drop it with an appraisal, but I'd suggest that you don't reward bad behavior: refinance with a different lender so HB doesn't make money out of this de facto forced refinance.