I have been reading books and listening to the Bigger Pockets podcasts for roughly 8 months now.

I have been in the process of setting up my own business to do transactions under, and have been spending any of my free time reading books about real estate, setting up excel sheets, and getting to know my local neighborhoods better. 

And Hattie yes I have read Brandon’s book as well as many others and listened to almost all the podcast now.

Before you start investing, I would spending most of your time trying to learn.I spent over a year listening to the BP podcast, reading many books, and just learning as much as I could about investing before finally taking the plunge.

A slumlord describes the landlord who doesn't maintain the property up to building code and habitability standards, and who doesn't respond to tenant requests for service and maintenance.The location of the property, amount of rent collected, value of property, or income of the tenant is NOT what defines a slumlord.

This way we'd be able to get a great deal on our house, it'd be up to the standard of house that my wife wants since we'd be in charge of the reno, and we'd be able to force enough equity in the property to eventually refinance it out later when we move to possibly rent it out. 

A certified rent roll and copy of leases is a standard starting point.

"lie with intent" is the distinction of course, I think by anyone standards legal or not, it would be wrong to lie with intent but with that said, proving illegal?

Can you listen to podcasts and books while you're working?   

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