Hello my name is Ryan and my wife and I are in our early twenties and live in (geographic) northern Virginia (not NOVA).  

I am a mid twenties entrepreneur from Manchester, NH who is looking to build a real estate portfolio.

Then how do people buy ten-twenty-thirty rental properties?  

One is in a rural area such as twenty nine Palms where the rent is low and the other is in a higher rent area such as Encinitas. 

I want to have a 20 minute phone conversation with you--with 20 of you.I want to offer what advice and direction I can as someone who has bought and sold 36 properties, who owns 36 rental units, whose made mistakes an...

Yes lol, twenty five hundred dollars.

He was surely preyed on since he knows nothing about real estate and is in his early twenties.

An authorization to tow pursuant to this subsection may be made only under any of the following circumstances:  (1) There is displayed, in plain view at all entrances to the property, a sign not less than seventeen by twenty-two inches in size, with lettering not less than one inch in height, prohibiting public parking and indicating that unauthorized abandoned property or property parked in a restricted or assigned area will be removed at the owner's expense, disclosing the maximum fee for all charges related to towing and storage, and containing the telephone number of the local traffic law enforcement agency where information can be obtained or a twenty-four-hour staffed emergency information telephone number by which the owner of the abandoned property or property parked in a restricted or assigned area may call to receive information regarding the location of such owner's property;  (2) The abandoned property is left unattended on owner-occupied residential property with four residential units or less, and the owner, lessee or agent of the real property in lawful possession has notified the appropriate law enforcement agency, and ten hours have elapsed since that notification; or  (3) The abandoned property is left unattended on private property, and the owner, lessee or agent of the real property in lawful possession of real property has notified the appropriate law enforcement agency, and ninety-six hours have elapsed since that notification.  5.

@Greg Szymbor “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” in other words, invest now.

If you are not familiar with Alabama tax sale redemption rights, please read my blog post here:  https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/70/topics/181968-alabama-tax-sale-redemption-rightsThe twenty years mentioned by your real estate agent is for adverse possession when you don't have color of title, and it is not a boundary line dispute.