Since 75% of the proposed income more than offsets the PITI of the loan, it's a wash.  

You will learn a lot, but you just may walk away with new friends, new partners, and maybe even someone who can call a mentor.

One reason eastern KY really lags behind is that they don't have a lot of employment opportunities and lower populations.

@David Lewis:-) I advise most of our members to read "Acres of Diamonds" then let's have a discussion, if you want?

I started down this journey once I realized that being a youth pastor alone would never provide the financial future that I want for my wife and kids so I started investigating real estate and reading "BRRRR".  

We need to find a good app/website for them to send rent as well, preferably one that has many things built into it, making it more simple to manage things in one place.

I think you will gain a lot there. 

No, you weren't spamming, but the system doesn't actually read the messages, it just reviews them.

Focus a lot on the kitchen counters, hard surfaces.

Quote from @Will Greenlee: I would agree with @Drew Sygit every software has its kinks and this one along with all the other ones started somewhere.. 7-8 years ago Buildium was less effective than it is today, and now it is a lot better.