Best of wishes on you real estate adventure!

All the best to you in your REI adventures.

You are already off to a great start to your real estate adventure!

While I don't like being in a position where I'm increasing rent too much and may create turnover, I feel like I'm taking a gamble assuming the excessive bills were all created by the leaks.

So a premunium maybe worthwhile if  the home is in places like this. do research mroe indepth to the area itself and you will have a better understanding of gambling in Atlanta markets :)

After a few years you could likely sell to a new investor or even a long term tenant while moving on to other adventures.

It also seems like there are 6+ month waiting lists to get into modern, resort style apartments around here so tenants may be out of luck if they take a gamble leaving, which i think is playing in us (Landlord's favor) as of now as they don't have as much bargaining power.

Best of luck in your REI adventures and wishing all of you have a purposeful day!!!

It shocked me that instead of saying "I don’t know about investing and I want to learn about it" they said "Real Estate won't work since the mortgages are crazy high so profits are not possible and the Stock Market is just a gamble".

Start digging around for good deals on a place that you could live in and rent part of it out (roomates, etc.).You'd end up getting a crash course in finding and buying, plus the adventures in owning and fixing, and hopefully living for less because others would help you pay for the place.If I was starting in my twenties, I'd pull some variation of this!