No need to throw money at service providers when you don't have a property under your belt.

If you wait a week for a check to clear and it bounces, that's throwing a week of rent income down the drain.Once funds are received, I expect the renter to start paying rent within 7-10 days.

What if you started with Re wholesale till you have some flow to throw into a Fix and flip?

Whatever your market area demand is.Please don't answer all of the questions above to me, I'm just throwing out the need for a City/County discussion.Sounds like a home run. 

I honestly prefer the pony wall, I have a toddler, and a baby on the way, and I don't want them to throw things down the stairs between the railing lol.

Also a year - year and a half of cash reserves to cover mortgages or throw at a new deal during opportune time won't keep you awake at night.  

The rest, I would throw into mortgage REIT's as they are still beaten down.  

Let's be real, if everyone else's happy meals are $2.875, and you're at $2.75, and the food is ready reasonably fast and of high quality, your customers will still be plenty happy, with the price and the service... you absolutely don't need to (& shouldn't) drop to $2.50 and throw service/taste/quality out the window to do well (in fact, you will do worse). 

I love it when some tenant thinks they are going to sneak their pet in without paying extra and I throw the law at them.

One outlier property can throw that average off.