The Zillow ad shows that you have lowered the rent from $950 to $925 to $825 over a period of 51 days.

Delivery your binder/deposit to title company.One you go under contract, then you need to have inspections done during your inspection period.

The IRS allows an owner to depreciate the value of the home over a 27.5 year period.

If it no longer looks like a good deal for you after inspection, don't feel bad, that's what the inspection period is for.

After that, Mutual funds are next tax efficient compared to another investment vehicle.

Most market corrections can be weathered by any investor over a relatively short time period.

Seasoning is a time period of how long you have be paying on the loan before they will let you make changes to it . 

They can have linear, slow-growth for a period of time followed by period of moderate cyclical-style appreciation.

I was lucky they didn’t assess me multiple violations over a couple month period because I was not aware of it.They don’t teach you in the guru classes to make nice with the city inspector office so they don’t fine you repeatedly for something as simple as grass lol. 

I live in the Boston area, have 2 multi's & have a full time job ( self-employed) .So , Boston to Rhode Island , would be my travel (2 1/4 hours) .....don't mind periodically traveling to keep checking the property, in fact I prefer to do that.