My day job is designing high rise residential, mixed use buildings all over east coast and my passion is to design and gut rehab single family houses and townhouses.

That building should net you guys enough to find somewhere comfortable to live.

Hey guys...we're still struggling to find a CPA we're comfortable with.  

And I get to charge my own fees.There is no better or worse, just what you are comfortable with. 

Hey I'm a 23 year old working towards my first home so that i can get my foot in the door and out my comfort zone. 

Many different strategies just depends what you are comfortable in doing.

You'll need to get comfortable with controlling assets rather than owning them.

Instead, I used a spreadsheet to arrive at a value and presented an offer I was comfortable with (if financed).

My initial plan was to purchase with cash then take a mortgage out after it is rented for 3 months then use the mortgage money and add 20% more of my cash on hand to buy the next place; I could have done that to purchase 4 houses which would have my passive income at a comfortable level.  3 of the 4 houses would have a mortgage and I would have mutual funds and 1 house to cover the debt of the 3 mortgages. 

Hi @Jenny PennockI agree with @Gail Kaitschuck on trying to do a regular tenant first before dealing with Section-8. 30% of my properties cater to Section-8, but I "graduated" to this after a handful of regular tenants and once I got comfortable with the standard rental practices.