If he sees issues that require further expertise such as foundation issues he notes it and recommends you have additional inspections.  

After that, you beef everything up with your content marketing, updating your blogs, and making whatever changes or additions you need to make as you go along.In terms of "wasting time", clearly Omar Ruiz didnt waste it because he was beefing up his knowledge and getting set up properly.

Additionally, what you are saying is sounds like what people typically say to politicians..

Bought side by side duplexes in Everett in late 2013.Saved just a little more with the addition of the duplexes cashflow and having a freshly proven model and sharp looking BP analysis tools, pitched and bought a fourplex with a partner in early 2014 (25% down and Have since bought the partner out).With 8 units, cashflow Snowball began to grow and saved, saved and saved.

Additional roommates would need to go through the screening process we use for every applicant. 

Anything helps, if I'm not too clear on the concept or additional information is needed please ask.  

Since I’m not opening a LLC or anything like that it just goes on an additional document along with my individual tax forms.

It's almost a wash, and the additional cash flow from paying off the mortgages is exact and unwavering, whereas the cash flow from my building was not, so that kind of stabilizes my income a little bit as I go into  retirement. 

Longer term I am interested in building a portfolio of additional multi family properties and ideally I could see this as something that my wife and I could do full time. 

The house mentioned above I believe we ended up about $1500 in misc pipe repairs and adding a few sections of baseboard for the kitchen renovation and master bath addition.