However, my long-term goal is to acquire a passive income through multi-family homes and SFH in the Milwaukee area that will allow me to focus full-time on RE investing.

So, going small to start will reduce upfront costs, and allow us to build necessary relationships with lenders/contractors/agents in order to get better financing and pricing options on the bigger deals that we'll do later.Here's a good, hypothetical, example.

I have entertained the thought of renting a house or condo year round that I could possibly sublet if I wanted with the thought that that would still end up being cheaper than purchasing a condo and would allow us to travel light and have a place to escape 2 at a moment's notice.

I am currently held up due to possible lack of knowledge and practice talking, and I don't want to allow myself to eventually get held up due to my fears.Thank you for reading, and thank you for the help!

It has gone up for almost a decade, this information allows the average person to feel confident in their purchase.

In both cases, you will also have tax on unrecaptured depreciation for the amount of depreciation taken (or allowed, if that's greater.)If you bought a property intending to fix it and resell it the holding period is irrelevant. 

On the one home I purchased pre-1978, I had an XRF test that cleared it as MD allows a lead-free certification to avoid future testing requirements with a professional XRF test submitted to them. 

Regardless of how they divide up the rent they all owe me the full amount for rent.

I think the separate payments is something Avail.com allows them to setup.

Neither he nor his friends nor his family were allowed near the house, but had access to his stuff.