My question is would that protect your personal assets (my car and primary residence for instance).

@Joel Knutson I'm not the most experienced as I just embarked on real estate, but from watching the market here and from buying my own residence, I know how competitive it is in the 200-250k SFH market.

Just getting into property investing with the intention of buy and hold and self managing the rentals.In the past we have bought and sold properties that were our principle residence and done well.

My wife and I are house hunting for our primary residence, but we eventually see it becoming a rental.Around here (Northern VA), pretty much any decent place you find is going to be tied to an HOA, a condo association, or sometimes even both.

In my opinion my personal residence is not an investment.In your situation, my focus would be on selling my current home quick at a price that is acceptable and the new home I'm buying is where I want to live.Hope this helps.

I am a recent college grad residing, and hopefully soon investing, in Racine, WI (between Milwaukee and Chicago).

I would like to speak with the landlord to find out about the current tenants and to talk about the possibility of owner financing, and I would like to get some kind of application and list of previous residences from the current tenants, but the real estate agent says I can't speak directly to either of them - I'm still learning about the etiquette involved.

I'm sure a few folks will disagree with me on this from Atlanta, but I'm an Atlanta resident, and have been since 1986.

Being a long term resident of San Antonio, I am perplexed as to where in San Antonio that it is so impoverished that it garners intervention of the federal government.

Not your same situation, but we have found out that you need to be even more careful on investment property closings than you are on personal residences as there seem to be more protections in place now for owner occupants but not for investment property.