Right now a mentor ship for you would be electives or books and a part time job in any way in the real estate business.

This you may have to bone up outside college (part time working in real estate industry possibly) or enroll in some real estate courses as electives or online (even if outside your school).  

Pay special attention to foundation, HVAC, plumbing, electic and the roof.

If you start with a 12 month lease and they are good tenants then great, but if they are bad tenants you can terminate the tenancy with 30 days notice and be rid of the problem.2) The President of our REIA firmly believes, and I agree, that each time you go sign a new lease it just reminds the tenant of how long they have been renting from you. my goal is to have as many long term tenants as possible, so I don't want to continuously remind them of how long they have been renting one of our properties.

WelcomeI am the current president of the Chattanooga REIA and am willing to offer you a free guest pass for you an your wife if you want to make the trip up hill to visit.

We don't allow users to mention folks they aren't connected to in order to keep folks from annoying other users who haven't elected to be colleagues or who haven't chosen to get involved in a particular conversation.

Get an LLC and decide if you want to elect S Corp treatment for it.

Tell him Tradd (former KA president) sent you his way.

Call the building department and ask if they have heard or know of the contractor you elect to work with, believe me they know the good and bad ones.

My wife is the president, so you'll understand.