I'd love to get your knowledge.Studying is great (feel free to check out my website if you're interested in rehabbing), but eventually you'll need to get out there and gain some real-world experience...and you're going to need to devote some time to that...When you're ready to start getting real-world experience, I highly recommend finding a successful investor doing whatever it is you want to do, and offer to work for him/her for free for 6 months -- even if it means getting coffee, doing errands or whatever -- in return for them training/teaching you.People think it's perfectly reasonable to go to school for many years to learn the ins and outs of their trade/career, yet can't seem to fathom spending 6 months devoting their time interning for free to gain real world experience.

At my day job, in my investments, in school and in my personal life, it is often those answers to questions that I did not ask that are the most helpful.

It's a very blue collar neighborhood in a zip code that's primarily upper-middle class with good schools.

I am not too concerned about the down payment as cash is not an issue, but I want to finance this place and I would like to know my optimal route for doing so.Here's the thing: I am one year out of school and have about 11 months of income history.

i'm still old school and change out locks, but i do use the same brand each time..meaning i just switch knobs but not the inside hardware..takes 15 minutes to do front and back door (i'm not that handy, so i'm sure others do it quicker :) ) you don't want to 'god forbid' have a tenant come back and break in when new tenant has moved in...that could be a huge liability..in fact, i used to think switching locks between apartments and houses and keeping a few extra sets to rotate as tenants moved out would be sufficient, but now i prefer to just buy a new set for 25 bucks each time.

Unlike our investment properties, we always considered our home as buying a lifestyle -- schools, recreation, pool, waterfront, etc., how we wanted to live at that stage of our life.

House A is right down the street from a top elementary school, feeding into a top high school.

Its a great town with a great school!

A friend of mine from high school his parents buy tax auction homes fix them up and either flip or rent them.

I went to high school with a guy on the 05 national championship team.But yeah, Gig Em for sure.