If you have or qualify for disability that happened during your time with the National Guard that can increase your benefits as well.  

In fact high bidder was a well known foreclosure property buyer I had previous dealing with.  

Zillow cease working with Turbotenant as well, and my experience was the same as yours @Glenn Hoffman.Now I list on zillow separately by myself.

Also, I would also not cross-collateralize the houses if a lender would even do a portfolio loan.On your second question about multifamily, I would not jump to multifamily until you have experienced the common management problems with single-family as the expenses scale with the size of the property as well as the cost of mistakes.I would consider getting Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC) on each property.

Hi Lindsey,I'd like to hear more about your Reserve as well! 

I have nice portfolio of rental property in the Memphis area as well and constantly selling good investment property deals on & off market to my clients!

I can definitely say that while the bigger fire we had was a pain... it actually worked out really well... in the end we had a much improved property, and we stepped in and did as much of the work we could do ourselves that the insurance company was compensating us at  'retail' rates for... like painting, and replacing cabinets, and other simple tasks.  

Once you figure out what type of property you are looking for, laying out the repayment period for investors will help as well.

That clarifies some things pretty well.

I am for sure biased but I would highly suggest using a real estate agent that is a) familiar with that community b) is well versed in selling to non-Mexican citizens and c) has stellar reviews.