Was affordable enough that I could make mistakes and recover with little financial stress.

We can come up with a marketing plan and strategy together.More specific to your question, I personally like the idea of driving for dollars: you get a visual confirmation of stress and the list you build is unique to you.

The landlording business is full of stress, don't worry about things until there is something to worry about.

I have to say I am really stressing out about it, especially when it is well known that inspections don't always uncover all of the issues in a property.

In this case investor doesn't have to worry about finding a tenant or stressing out in finding one.

@Giovanni Branch, I cannot stress Dan's point about "tenant proof" enough.  

Yes people are stressing enough for me to build credit and since I was 18 I owned a credit card and still do, but what are some other things I can do to build credit rather than buying a liability?

That combined with it being a fairly socialist society and open immigration policies has created quite the environment for housing demand.

Making offers involves creating the surety to the sellers that their home will sell and sell with out much stress involved. 

I’ve also been reading that debt to income ratio is less important as long as they satisfy the 3x rent income, so we are opting to not stress the financial obligations.