This concern has kept me from being an aggressive investor for many years.Do you or anyone else here think it would be worhwhile to take a home inspector course to be a better real estate investor?

It comes out of his proceeds.Really, you don't need to concern yourself with the sales commission if you are the buyer, other than the fact that buying through a realtor means you can't do a "no money down" deal.

In fact, even during the first year, the newbie will have maintenance expense because the majority of maintenance is caused by tenants, not by the age of things.

Only disadvantage is that my piece of paper is lessened in value but that no longer matters to me, as far as I am concerned now the only person who’ll ever size up my degree to see if I’m “qualified” is myself ;)

If so, you're likely one of the best landlords in the country, and I would recommend buying much larger apartment buildings/complexes where you can make a LOT more money...My biggest concern based on your answers is that if you're doing all the work yourself (leasing, maintenance, turn-over, landscaping, evictions, etc), you're probably spending at least a third of time time (if not a lot more) on this one property, and this one property is only earning you $20K per year.So, you basically have created a job for yourself, that's earning you less than $60K/year.

Just wondering if anyone has any ingenious ideas as far as marketing is concerned.

They pay early and have not caused any other problems to this point.

I know how to calculate the cap rate.If i want to know what is the fair value of the MFH:What cap rate should i take into concern in order to know if the property is undervalued?

I was wondering how you go about looking for employees and how you set things up as far as entities are concerned.

As far as health care plans are concerned, that's going to largely depend on what's offered in your state.