Facebook marketplace has made it so easy to find good deals on appliances. 

Managing from a distance is easy if you have people you trust around.

You are look way below the Middlesex County limits.I totally understand not wanting roommates, however, the ability to supplement even a condo with roommates can be phenomenal and an easy way to get started in RE investing.You final question has a few concepts packed together:1. -$100 a month does give you some tax losses plus the depreciation.

I have a guy (with 4 yr son) whose background checks indicates 700+ credit score, stable federal job (3X salary vs rent) for last 8 years, good references from past 2 landlords BUT had chapter 7 bankruptcy that was discharged in 2013. 

This gives you the ability to learn and have a mentor at the same time and a 5-10 door is just as hard/easy as any other loan to get.

It’s easy to get analysis paralysis though.

We have to physically go into a bank for the deposit since it's easy to blow past the number of check limits and/or the dollar amount limits.In our case, we're doing commercial real estate so the check values are high per month.I would love to ask our customers to do ACH / direct deposit, but they're not always amenable to that. 

Does anyone know if there a compiled list of books referenced in the Famous Four segment of the Podcasts?

Btw, the example I gave up there with 50k profit was just for easy numbers, that's not a norm.

I will need to get the exact numbers from the lender tomorrow on what the new payment will be on the initial two properties and the new one to do the math....Easy enough to calculate based on the numbers you gave - Principal balance of $214k, 25-year am at 4.9% is a P&I payment of $1,238.59.