Some of the personality disorder folks are super good at garnering sympathy and making themselves look innocent when they are sneaky trouble makers-- you ignore their **** at your peril.

I just know it’s bad to read about something, get all excited and super attached without stepping back and making an informed an educated decision especially when it’s as big as buying your first property.https://youtu.be/mUy8yPAPQ5Q

Any and all tips would be super helpful!

It's an option but a super tough one in our market.

My agent is super awesome and I hope to save for a second property and will also go back to him.

@Matt Kitto, even if you're grossing $2,000/m in order to net $1,000/m in rent, I hope you realize that your MORTGAGE repayments alone for your $295,000 mortgage is likely to be roughly $2,000/m, unless you can get a SUPER low interest rate, amortized for a full 30 years! 

I have been investing in Real Estate for a super long time... it is the love of my business life.

I'm still in debt paydown mode, so the spreadsheet is super helpful for me for running scenarios.

@Brian Coleman Super impressed with what you have already accomplished!

You talked to an average mortgage person who doesn't work with self employed people, he simply doesn't have that "car" on his "lot," so he invited you to check out what he does have -- mortgages for salaried W2 people.A super easy experiment you can do to confirm this phenomenon, call Quicken Loans and say you want an FHA loan on a triplex.