She informed me that tenant is on a medical leave and will be by in a week or two.

Hi all, I have some questions about using the 1031 like kind exchange to avoid some of the taxes I could incur.I closed on my first home a week ago. 

I'll definitely have this one on replay in the coming weeks.

For example, the last refi I did was 4.75%... the one I'm closing on this week is 5.75%... that affected what I planned on paying significantly. 

Hi All,These last few weeks have been going a little better.

I am going for a site visit this week and am wondering what other questions or info would be important to have or find out.

You can invest in a good or bad two family in RI or Mass equally, but having a a 20 minute vs. 1 hour daily commute, or being able to see family multiple times a week vs once or twice a month can be pretty important.So I would say choose between those areas first, then when you're ready to start analyzing specific properties to see if you want to put offers in on any of them, there are a lot of resources here on Bigger Pockets for learning to analyze properties, such as the rental property buy and hold calculator.I don't do a lot of owner occupied purchases for myself at this point so the Conventional 97 is new to me also (and has only been around since Dec 2014) but it looks like there are many pages comparing it to FHA so I'd recommend just spending the time to research the differences a bit.You'd want to make sure that if you use a mortgage broker s/he is licensed in RI and Mass (if you still haven't decided between the two), and I'd say to make sure when you are comparing the two options that you consider all the monthly costs (e.g., including private mortgage insurance payments in addition to the regular monthly principal/interest payment) and that you consider all the up-front costs.

@Elise Bickel I met with Dionne and Stephanie a week or 2 ago and I felt very comfortable talking to them.

I would also recommend participating in some of the very useful weekly webinars here on BP.

He said that is what the 4 training webinars are for, one each week.