I highly recommend the podcasts, they are like short courses in different strategies.

Usually there's a pre-licensing course, a state and national test and continuing education requirements for every year.

Just a few questions, and of course, if you have ever been, or are currently in my position, I'd love to hear your story and how you're doing!

For me, house rents for more than apartment so tenant in house with vacant apartment is better than vacant house with tenant in apartment so I would do this for a good tenant that I know can afford the house.Of course, leaving apartment would require tenant leave it rent ready, otherwise you would deduct needed work to make it rent ready from Security Deposit.Gets a bit tricky transferring the SD to the new house because you then don't have an SD for the apartment.

It has a decent calendar program and of course email.

My wife & I attended a 3 day Rich Dad Education workshop and it clicked for her and now I rely on her "intuition" regularly [of course it took me 15 years to realize this].I always recommend reading and/or listening to as much as you can.If you haven’t already, please read/listen to these books ASAP!

It has a fire place, lots of chairs, and of course a hot spot for internet.

Financing is super cheap right now and the ROI from leverage is really good right now.I understand being debt free on your personal property but maybe you might want to look further into the pros and cons of being mortgage free on all of your properties.Of course, it al depends on your risk tolerance and investment goals.Good luck

I believe in this business and I am extremely excited about getting started, but I want to go about it in a wise way and of course wisdom comes from experience.

Of course this is all on paper and varies a bit from project to project; as others have pointed out, one big factor is where you borrow your money from and how much that will cost you.