In addition to sales and marketing skills, you'll want to build a team of professionals that you can rely on (title, escrow, appraisers, inspectors, contractors) as well as contact as the government agencies you will occassionally visit.

There are no good wholesale deals.Washington is not Landlord friendlyThere is also talks from inside government of passing rent control in the Puget Sound area.

So I guess my new plan, William, will be to make as little as possible so the government won't spend as much :).....isn't that how if works?...

First, learn the landlord-tenant laws applicable to the jurisdiction that governs your rental property.

Your attitude is what governs your true purpose, which cause or mission you choose in what you do and why you do it.

Bill Gulley - Thanks again for reminding us about how much the government likes to tell us what to do.

RE and finance is governed by state laws and AR and TX are very different, you'll have much to learn and not get confused if you plan on playing on both sides of the fence. :)

Then in October, the government matches my funds 4 to 1, so they give me $7,500 to put towards a down payment.

Not enough hours in the day to care about trying to coordinate a government office with a tenant for something that has the most likely outcome of getting my taxes raised when they see that I fixed the place up pretty nice.

The family has sued countless town, county, state governments and people claiming they were wronged because of his disability.