I heard of developers doing this with farm land around cities.

They are always after work and you will start to learn, face-to-face, how others do it.

If you hold it long enough, it will increase in value through appreciation and you can sell it for a higher price.

This should be a 100% pass and do not even read further.2.

Those might make good rentals...but also there can be extra costs...see if they are in PIDs/PUDs or MUDs that add significant cost to the monthly payment...maybe $100-$200 extra a month.Also $2500 sounds high on rent to me for 1800sqft....I would think more like around $2000/month, but haven't looked in that area lately.I do like Forney....one issue is I don't think there are good demand drivers there. 

It's a great place to stat with your RE investment journey! 

Purchase price: $552,000 Cash invested: $30,000 purchased this home as primary home. lived in it for 1 1/2 years, rented it out and moved to a different primary home.

I'm in a bit of a unique situation in that I'm a California resident and can only invest in properties all-cash for religious reasons.I'm not able to use leverage/loans, and I know and accept that investing all cash is not common, but thats the way I do it. 

I like Stessa but it wasn't able to do the other accounting that I needed. 

If you do get a second set, make them yours, and assign the tenants each alternating days to the other.