You can find out more info on BP as well as plenty of other sites on the internet.

I am fully aware that I will not be offering the seller internet math; meaning, I will not offer $350K for her home because Zillow estimates the house's AVR at $499K.

These items have helped me but in general we have a mortgage for about $2200/month plus other typical bills such as water, electricity, gas, internet that add to at least 3k.

So the only thing it has going for it is heat/ac, internet and cable being included. 

While you're waiting for your credit score to slowly climb to acceptable levels, learn everything you can in a broad sense, then figure out where you want to concentrate, then concentrate on that area with LASER FOCUS.Bottom line, nobody can tell you what to do with some arbitrary sum of money.

The stock market has been good to me, and now I’d like to diversify into real estate, but I don’t want to lose money while I’m learning the ropes.The Internet seems a great place to learn real estate investing, but there’s a problem.

Elgin, Manor, Bryan College Station ect might be the places to concentrate.

Don’t get caught up with the other Internet gurus.

I've heard people mention that they got one off the internet, but I don't want to do that without someone saying they've used it before, because ya know, internet scams.

I’m sure others are way better at this than me, but I find I don’t make that much more than if it was a regular rental once you factor in the 17.75 percent taxes you pay plus utilities and internet plus the cost of hard and soft furnishings that have to be replaced periodically.