Just make sure you are offering a price that makes sense for your investment plan; don't get caught up in the emotions.

That's the best way to get started in my opinion and just make sure you do good amount of due diligence on what you pick and try not to think about finding an area you necessarily want (or don't want) to live, since it will hopefully be temporary anyway. 

Is it illegal to charge pet fees to an emotional or service animal.

If you have a lease that selectively adds items in just for this tenant I might check the legality of that - also, just as a “in general” comment, you will need to dial down your emotions, this is a business after all, and dealing with people we dont like is part of the job.

What is everyone using for temporary bridge financing?

"All 14 Alaskan Huskies are emotional support animals.

My suggestion is to first make sure you are not emotional and working solely on logic and facts.

Along those lines I’ll need to put together my go/no-go numbers together so I can eliminate emotion from the decision, especially as a first-time investor. 

There is always emotion, and where there is emotion, there are problems.  

It is more business relationships with investors rather than showing house and all of that more emotional type tear eyed stuff.