Right now I am just breaking even.

Making all the wrong choices when I was younger hasn't allowed me to break past the lower middle class.

When living In a property, do you break any rule if you legally live there, but just don’t spend time there: example…I legally live there.

One of my colleagues did a really good piece on this that breaks down each neighborhood by how investor friendly they are that I've linked to this.

While I was going about the dreaded job hunt here in Florida, I couldn't help but wonder if this is the time and place for me to dive into investing and begin the foundation to financial freedom and to break away from the 9-5.I love the idea of BRRRR, and would love that to be a long term solution for me, but I understand that for the time being perhaps flipping would be a better entry point for me to start gaining income.I have roughly 30-40k in pocket to get started, but I'm concerned about finding lenders to approve me due to me currently being unemployed.

I look at mid west properties for cash flow vs CA properties with negative or break even cash flow and over a 10 year period, the CA property beats it each time.

There is usually a warranty (tenants break things) and free delivery, installation and haul away of the old appliance. new appliances are so cheap these days that I don't buy a used one -- especially not from craigslist where it could break shortly after purchase (no reviews on who is selling it) and then it's a hefty fee to get someone out to fix it. repairman are expensive these days whereas appliacnes are becoming more affordable.

If not, you’re going to have to find a legally defensible way to break out the property’s value from the land value and then depreciate that over 27.5 years.

And often these things have been painted over so much they not only open with significant force to break the glass but they look...terrible. 

All the vehicles in the world used asbestos break pads and there was a significant amount of asbestos in the are due to break pads.