Canesha, thank you for the welcome and the solid advice.Between your advice about the contractors and somethings I heard on the rookie podcast.

I do credit checks, etc...Ensure your tenants are SOLID.

If we get what we want or more early, we assess whether the buyer is solid on financing (or cash) and whether they are obsessed with the home.

Philadelphia Metro: Median Sales Price Up 9%, Overall Sales Down 12.8% YoYWhile the market remains solid, there is growing tension between several key market metrics: supply, prices, and sales.

A solid buyer should be able to get a much lower rate than 8%.

Welcome again and enjoy your stay, a lot of solid advice here on BP and good discussions about how to go about this business, there is no one right away as long as it works for you and you get the returns you are looking for in the process.

If you buy for cash flow as @Danielle Jackson advised, you're going to be solid.

Whatever you do end up doing, if you do not buy the property, make sure everything is done in a rock-solid legal document.

Feel free to pm me and I can provide their contact details.Sounds like a solid plan to me, now, just have to continue that daily consistent action to put it in place. 

@Fili Aguirre No one applicant is perfect, one has to give points to a strong rental history, with the mid-range credit score with a middling LL recommendation, against the applicant with low credit score (bad decisions a few years ago) but who now has a solid employer but who's missed a car payment.