While its a statistical fact that many more people died around or just after the holiday season (stress from family dynamics, lifestyle, drinking and eating habits) this does not correlate to a "probate season". 

Your mortgage payment is $845/mo out of a gross revenue of $1200/mo.Put differently, your mortgage eats up 70% of your revenue right off the bat.

And this side of my family is Cuban, so I'll need to brush up my Spanish and be ready to eat pork.I don't expect (and hope) to have any RE issues during these few days.

This will create leverage for his other properties, and this slumlord well end up eating the deferred maintenance, which he thought he could pass on to someone else.Sebastian

I bet some people even paid to get out of them.same thing in Wayne county the tax's water bills etc etc can just eat your lunch.. the properties really are not worth 500 they have negative values in my mind.

In looking for properties in NJ, I can't see why anyone would invest in some towns in NJ. My question is would you invest near where you live but have higher RE taxes OR invest in properties farther away but less RE t...

Usually in real estate it is so "dog eat dog" and people do not share information (without receiving payment). 

Fat fingers.

I mean, who wants to eat that sandwich?  

Eat and sleep it - at your age, with Biggerpockets as a resource, you have an absolute outstanding opportunity in front of you.