This is a garden home and the yard is fenced in with a 10 foot privacy board in board fence The neighbor stated it was making her violently ill and that it is a health hazard for her as it was coming in through her vents and or windowsshe has also been known to harass my last tenant, and sending us text that trees are too close to her home telling us that we need to cut it because there were branches over her skylight and she claims that it was scratching the cover. she called the city when the last tenant had to sell all of her items at an estate sale due to loosing her job and having to move from the property and cited that she was in violation of city ordinances due to not informing the county of an estate sale.

You have come to the right place to begin your investing journey.Awesome board with many smart people having own suggestions and ideas to grow wealth!!

I have my realtor and contractor on board.

As of now, we pay our kids to collect the rent each month.

i don't do Section 8 -- we only do month to month rentals -- but I have read on many LL boards that the Section 8 experience comes down to the public housing authority managing your local Section 8 program.  

There's investors on these boards who been doing it for 20 years and they don't have 167 doors.Look, I've seen a lot of the behind the scenes of brokering, originating, and coordinating of loans and projects.If you want a cash flow heavy portfolio this is your strategy:As far as SFH - the only holds are the higher value houses in desirable STR areas. 

The teacher did try and have us study balancing a check book and calculate interest rates but the class was meant for kids who couldn't pass normal high school math.

By the way Congratulations to @James Wise for being amongst the  top 4 members in points and on the leader board this this week. 

See if you can get a copy of The Millionnaire Real Estate Investor by Keller.The Slight Edge and Atomic Habits too.Awesome board with many smart people having own suggestions and ideas to grow wealth!!

I know one guy who hates brokers and will never use one  because his mother had a romantic affair with a broker and it broke up his family when he was a kid.