I honestly should have more money saved up considering my years of working full-time, however younger financial mistakes have been a painful lesson and I regret not purchasing a property sooner/younger.My most important and immediate goal right now is to purchase a property.I am in (what I perceive to be) a relatively high cost real estate area. 

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

And what about that high school biology?

I think Dave Ramsey(who I respect but don't worship, lol) would be highly disappointed in me for even thinking about doing this, SMH.

One thing that has not been mentioned in this thread is GC buys properties in high quality areas.

This can be quite expensive. 3) Make sure you buy furniture with a high weight capacity. 4) This arrangement doesn't attract the best tenants.

I’m wondering what the mailer time lines look like along with quality.

Even in high traffic cities it can be tricky to keep occupancy over 85%, so you would have to be very competitive with your property to hit the 60% mark in my opinion where seasonality is so strong. 

Hi Everyone,
I'm a data scientist interested in buying out of state property, and it boggles me how difficult it is to find US-wide real estate market data at the metro/city-level. Zillow's API is no longer offered (...

Unless, MAYBE, if you buy a high end induction unit?