Boyfriend (who wasn't on the lease, was arrested on site by the SWAT) I assume, paid most of the bills. 

Thank you, increase the number of units and lower your average housing cost per unit. 180k for 1500 in rent doesn't' work. all in triplex we can build with land for 400k with our margin and land and entitlement that rents for 5400 a month in columbus.

With those details, I am wondering if we should use the equity in our home to purchase an investment property?

But we basically followed David Greene's advice for finding a realtor in Long-Distance Real Estate Investing.Here's a summary of what we were looking for:* An agent who has experience being a landlord/investor and so already shares our perspective (looks for opportunity rather than curb appeal)* An agent who knows the Alexandria area well* An agent who doesn't mind showing us many houses and writing a bunch of lower offers* An agent who doesn't mind sharing their opinion about a property being wrong for us so we can move on to the next oneThere are many great meetups here.

They should have GC leads for you in case you want to go that route.In our strategy, we usually rehab the house to rental ready stage at the acquisition itself. 

Once we sale, based on other comp in the area, our net profit will be around 30K. 

We include lawn care in all of our rentals through a contract with a private company and just build the cost into the rent because tenants suck at taking care of lawns.

@Joe S. we take a lot of videos for our OOS clients.We ALWAYS state it's just a part of the process and a professional inspection should always be done.Depending on the quality & thoroughness of a Video Evaluation, this should be all an investor needs.

It helps you learn landlording on-site and also offsets the costs and your living.

After spending much time & energy becoming more financially literate and learning the basics of REI, we are interested in pursuing our 1st rental property deal in the DFW market!