Your buddies can still room with you if you get a 3-4 bedroom unit but if it goes south you still have the other rental income to foot the bills.The beautiful thing is if you find the right property your income doesn’t even matter.

Very excited I got my foot in the door because it is the definition of a brrrr property!

parts of Charleston though are very high and compare to other markets were new builds sell for 500 to 1000 a foot.  

Tell them you heard sounds like a child crying coming from your neighbor's apparently abandoned property and nobody answers when you shout but the crying continues. 

I use this as an opportunity to "Drive for Dollars", just by foot, and decided that it was time to send out a few handwritten notes.

Very few markets have rates below $0.50 per square foot per month as long as the property is clean enough and well run though most of my experience is on my side of the Mississippi:)!

Avoid the section where you talk to someone and they try to sell you countertops per square foot.

I do believe it's as simple as "No" with no explanation but again, as soon as you start to talk about how she has kids.. it could become a situation where she feels discriminated against for having kids.Unless it's a big place square foot wise.

I wouldn't touch a condo with a ten foot pole.

Enjoy the times you are going downhill, and keep your head down and put one foot in front of the other on the uphill.”On the downhill- focus of improving your systems (contractors, improving systems, maintenance).On the uphill- do whatever it takes.