CS market sucks right now/ maybe not even worth it but have to live in the area for family health reasons. 

Our family has a lot of complicated health issues.

I go to school for health behavior science and plan to go to grad school for public health so I am looking for real estate to be a "side hustle", at least until I start bringing in real money.

It is human nature for people to think the aspects they like or have expertise at are the most important.

I think with these things it's an opportunity to bring humanity to business.

Sewer water is gross and a health hazard to your tenant.

Took two weeks to navigate that one, never able to get an answer or in touch with a human that could do anything.Several years back I managed ultra luxury villas that were in the 5-50k/night range and we would make multiple listings for each property and in different accounts 'just in case'. 

Many Fortune-500 Human Resources departments use the theory of 70-20-10 in developing employees which apply here. 70% is learned by doing, 20% learned from peers, and 10% is academic/book/classroom training.Below is another rendition of the same theory.

My credit was bad because in my young 20's I had some health issues had to stop working and that ended up tanking my credit in the end.

using the financial health and equity of one property to finance the purchase of another  property.in simple terms, if you have $300k excess equity in a project, you can cash it out and use it as the downpayment for another property.the new property must be able to pay its own mortgage and the cost of the equity cash out.