And members crashed them occasionally a couple went into the ponds and some broken feet ( dragging their feet) but to me if you have guest and they let a teen on them with little to no experience if they hit something or someone they could really do some damage so based on my experince with them I would never do this personally.

Quote from @Cody Journell: I am in a small community and know most of the agents personally, so I have only marketed verbally.

I use my own person that can usually fix a problem same day.

My wife and I personally have 3 listings and 1 pending sale right now.

I personally invest in Columbus, Ohio because there is a lot of new businesses coming here such as an Intel, Wells Fargo, and Microsoft. 

Have a person who can guide you through the couple of deals you do at first to make sure you can really know how to do a deal from start to finish (not the remodeling, but systems)3.

I would love to have a meeting to discuss possible strategies, questions that we have, and we are serious about investing in a property as long as the numbers make sense.4) Also, if there is any Investment Community I would love to join, meet up with some investors so we can share some knowledge / valuable information.

If anyone has experience with this, could you please share your checklist for getting started?

Happy to share some data on it if you want.

If you live in it at least 2 years, you have the option to sell within 3 years after move out and not pay capitol gains taxes on up to $250k in profit as a single person.