I consider myself to be a pretty smart guy, with background in title, real estate transacting, and most aspects of construction.

I feel I am ready to start my investing after reading several real estate investing books and with my background in finance.

When my tenants applied to rent, I sent them an email from cozy, which sent them instructions on how to submit their background and credit check (the tenants paid $40 to cozy for the screening).

I have no real background in real estate, but have a strong desire to learn!

This is most likely a very daunting and expensive battle since they technically have an easement.

It's a bit of a fixer upper, but I have a construction background, so that's really not intimidating to me at all. 

To do so with no background in it and in multiple cities would be a tall task.  

But if you have a rental property and the income it brings in is (hopefully) enough to cover all of your expenses, technically your tenants are then paying that interest.

I have little to no background in real estate or fixing properties so I wanted to make sure I didn't bite off more than I could chew with trying to do flipping.

Tactically and technically proficient at all the jobs so you can spot and smell BS.