If you do not run numbers, you are shooting from the hip and your strategy is either fueled by "hope-ium", or your experience is so immense you know every input and return without running the numbers (but even the most experienced investors run their numbers).Here's the best advice I can give you: You can "run the numbers" until you are purple in the face, and you will never know what every single ACTUAL number is going to be before getting into a deal.

It may not add much value but I am hoping it'll bring up the rental rates when that time comes.

Have a lower monthly payment, not pay PMI, be able to save a bit more from the W2 jobs each month, as well as having a greater percentage of the mortgage covered by the upstairs tenants. 

Hoping to start flipping homes personally as well! 

Hope that helps. 

I find that automatically sending a message to your new guests is very useful, you get to start a conversation right away and it increases the guest's experience.I also automate all my cleaning jobs with Turno that I find invaluable.

It all depends on the above questions.I hope this helps and good luck!

Hello Brandon, hope you’re doing well.

I think we have real strong equity positions in the properties we are going to try to refi so I'm hoping that will help.

Since you are just graduating college you may already realize that it's not what you know, but who you know (as a personal note, I had college friends that were barely passing their classes however they ended up with really good paying jobs due to "who they knew").