All are single families, so landlord pays no utilities.

You can use this lease, but as you go further along you might want to customize it (with legal guidance of course).

No matter what knowledge you can pick up, be it real estate, construction, handyman, sales, customer service, etc., it's all part of your foundation that you build upon over the years, and ALL of it will be helpful in real estate investing.

-Calculating expenses (I read an article about being able to calculate them on a napkin to estimate positive or negative cash flow), but I do not know where to find these numbers, including HOA costs, utilities and whatnot, mortgage, vacancies, etc.

-Calculating expenses (I read an article about being able to calculate them on a napkin to estimate positive or negative cash flow), but I do not know where to find these numbers, including HOA costs, utilities and whatnot, mortgage, vacancies, etc.

Custom making them from Home Depot kits is both costly and a time sucking pain-in-the-@ss.

If this isn't a required utility we can choose to do nothing and perhaps a tenant isn't even interested in a land line.

I know multiple brand new officers who rent $1,300/month one bedroom apts (not including utilities) with additional $150/month garage fees.

Twitter and G+ have been so-so but at the same time, I probably don't utilize either as much as I should.As James Vermillion said, for the real estate trade specifically, it's hard to beat the social value in BiggerPockets.

Again, the best way to have secured lines is not through a secured credit card that can fund itself, but a loan to be repaid over time, amortized, that is secured by an asset, like a CD as the CD does not make payments for you.The whole things is about seeing how people manage money over time, paying as agreed, where they must make the effort to make the payment, not an arrangement where, if they fail to pay the payment is deducted from an account, there is no money management activity there, shows little effort.Secured credit lines are most important to secured lenders, the guy at the Rent To Own store is more interested in how customers pay revolving debt, past rent to own accounts than thier home loan.