We are digging deep into employment history, land lord references, social media, and local court records to find out if a tenant is likely to be a good tenant or not. 

Take a deep breath and realize you are ready, and if you can afford it monthly you will someday be a millionaire.  4.

I think I would trying to make it way too deep!

Will we see some affordability shock/ stagnation in the market, or will this give buyers some needed breathing room/ leverage. 

My own strategy was to go "wide" and then go "deep." 

They are unfortunately completely destroyed.In C-class single-family and apartments, for each window, I provide a $4 1-inch set of vinyl white miniblind from Walmart, a $1 white Big Lots curtain rod, and $4 white sheers from a five and ten discount store deep, deep, deep in the hood.

It just wasn’t designed for real estate investors.InvestingAt some point in the future I may do a deep dive into each of these:WealthFronthttps://www.wealthfront.com/Fidelityhttps://www.fidelity.com/Charles Schwabhttps://www.schwab.com/Acornshttps://www.acorns.com/Robinhoodhttps://robinhood.com/us/en/Bettermenthttps://www.betterment.com/Qoinshttps://qoins.io/SoFihttps://www.sofi.com/invest/Marcus Investhttps://www.marcus.com/us/en/investInvesting / EuropeEasy MoneyAdmittedly I haven’t put much time into researching this one:https://easymoney.com/Non-Traditional InvestingSorry, I haven’t done any bitcoin research yet…meanwhile….eREITs are becoming more mainstream:Rocket Dollarhttps://www.rocketdollar.com/ One of the top names in non-traditional investing.

I have done some GC work years ago and peoples utter lack of understanding of normal construction issues were the reason I got out of that quickly before I got into it too deep!

First would be a lender - a bank or a broker - to explain the situation and see what, if any, hurdles you might have: is your credit adequate (you may not have super deep credit and so would need to talk about this, for example), ask what you might qualify for. 

YES, we may be a little biased, but check out our blog here on BP comparing Detroit to other cities and Deep Dives on Metro Detroit cities & neighborhoods: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Your biggest question shouldn't be WHERE to invest, but HOW you will invest!