Or something else? 

If it were that easy to stroll into a town and make a mint off government employees, I'm sure someone else already figured it out decades ago.

@Adam Adams3 appartment buildings and 6 houses with 40k in hand121k gross income at say 10% annual that's 1,2m worth of real estate That's a 30:1 leverage...or 97% LTVI want the name of your lenderHonestly after the subprime crisis mess, i thought they would ban that kind of excessive leverage but it seems it is back to business as usual

She's sent other leads my way since then, but I haven't bought anything else yet.  

So it could be worth connecting with them as well.If all else fails, you may want to consider investing in an apartment fund.

.)- and everything else in between+ these are all free of course+ my promise that I won’t sell anything during the process :) so you’re perfectly safe with me!!!

we are talking to someone we know about buying his inherited property.we just did a title search, it has a lot of taxes owed. something else I didn't think about, it shares a common walkway with other houses. 

It is for this reason that I never let tenants do repairs and the fact that they may damage something else in the process. 

They tend to like to plant their roots as its hard to find SFH that will work with the program. 2) Get rid of the pet.3) Find somewhere else to live.Conclusion:  She decided to get rid of the pet.

I'm not saying that I don't appreciate some of the motivational content but at this point I'm already sold on RE investing and just want as much substance as possible.So, in a nutshell, for me and anyone else who stumbles across this post in the future: Knowing what you know now, what book would you start with and then what would be your next 2-3 steps after that?