If you can find good deals, great, but expect competition. 

Reasonable people will not expect you to hurt you or your family, but will appreciate whatever you can do for them, assuming they can see past their own pain.

Both in Escondido (Charise St and Sumac Way) were clean enough that I expected them to be redeemed.I may have kept Charise St and add it to our rental pool if we were to get it but no chance of that now.

Once you are in, expect to cold call every day.

Some of my money, some financing, father is the GC (which makes the full-gut across the continent not as scary a risk as it sounds).Spent two months wondering why no one would take our money for a house, once we figured out what worked, we suddenly realized we needed to think a little bigger (was doing it all my cash, now I'm good with some leverage).I've got a nice w2 that I'd love to dump for half the salary, if I could generate it, but I'm thinking that might be many years from now.Anyways, I'm heading to Atlanta Wednesday morning through Sunday morning. 

I appreciate the reminders and caution to expect the worst and hope for the best.

I few of mine are SFH or duplexes, but expect higher rates and shorter terms. 

For what it’s worth, I expect him to leave again.  

But, what should be the highest I should be expecting to pay on this?

But with any other type of business it is expected to have a business plan in place before starting and reviewing the plan on a yearly basis.