Roll them into the payment instead of coming out of pocket on an investment property at least until the point when you have no more consumer debt or primary residence debt.  

Don't spend no more than 5 minutes talking to one person.  

Assuming your rentals are in Alabama, the law there is: Alabama SECURITY DEPOSIT Limit: no more than one month's rent unless an additional fee is required for pets.

It is not a game, no more than the stock market is a game, it's bloody, serious business.There is money to be made, usually not quickly, never easily and not by naifs.

What about zoning regs (where I'm at no more than three unrelated people are allowed, no matter how many bedrooms).

I asked to pay no more than $500 closing costs and have the market rate on 15-yr loan.The guy told me yes, they can reduce the closing costs, but the loan rate will be increased - not by much, but it'd be more than market rate.I currently have 30-yr fixed with ~22 years left.

I probably wouldn't start moving into the home until I managed to get a contract on my current home.I'm really looking forward to NO MORE MORTGAGE...

I'm new on real estate and I've been analyzing deals and since I don't have that much money I'd be putting no more that 3.5% on a loan but I'd be using it to buy two separate properties.

Yes, my insurance carrier said they would insure the 2 rental properties I currently have titled in LLC name, but NO more.

Actually the is some contradiction to Dodd-Frank, the DF outline states no more than 3 sales, TILA which is part of DF states no more than 1 sale within a 12 month period.