However, I do have decent income and funds I could invest.I'm wondering if you guys think it would be smart for me to find someone who needed money for a deal (funding a down payment, as an example) and partnering with them taking advantage of their knowledge and potentially time.

I've been looking at buying my first investment property-a duplex in Upstate NY using a loan from my employer retirement fund. The numbers look good with a cash flow of about $200/month from the current tenants.  Mort...

Learned from this project that choice of contractors can greatly effect profitability due to time and cost.

I was not as smart as you and I held on.

Don’t make choices from fear but from what your data and personal situation are.

Learned from this project that choice of contractors can greatly effect profitability due to time and cost.

Absolutely be smart.

Lots of smart people/good info!

They are indeed fortunate to have you as their landlord.I am a tenant, in Colorado, who *will* be able to, and will, pay my rent for April.I can assure you, based on the constant, ever more hopeless, dismal, conversations circulating around the neighborhood by tenants from every nearby rental property, tenants would appreciate knowing where they stand ,rather than, perhaps, even feeling they have no choice but to move themselves out, ahead of perceived legal action by  their landlord.These are reliable tenants, with *years* of paying their rent on time, quiet, respectful tenants, who, for the most part, have landlords that are newer owners, less than a year, of the property they have been renting for 8 or more years.

@Justin Jones   As others have said you have some great choices.