Any investers/real estate agents in that market willing to meet with me so I can pick your brain and compile a pros and cons list???

You should definitely come by one of the little Havana meet ups and soak up the insight many of the community members have to share.

We hold monthly meetings in Alton, Belleville and Marion.

Like I said earlier, I'm meeting with the agent tomorrow so if there are any questions that I should/need to be asking, please feel free to reply here or DM me.

How your 401K fits into meeting your financial objectives during that time would depend on a wide variety of variables.

That put me all in at $120,000, and I got 3 college students renting the place out at $1200 a month, meeting the 1% rule.   

In the meantime I was hoping to start learning as much as possible and meeting great people.

Attended my first real estate investment group meeting here in Augusta, GA.

I had to go through the process of signing a new lease, meeting the existing tenants, doing repairs, enforcing rent payment rules, violations from code enforcement and finally an eviction.    

Hi nice to meet you.