@Nadir M.Two additional thoughts:1) A central boiler is a cost trap for owners.

In addition you'll have to make the monthly interest only payments.

There is additional reserve requirements when buying more than 1 unit, so get up to speed on those so you are prepared to have those in place at the time of closing your loan. 

I do employ a property management group just to collect rents. 

I have my own construction company in addition to my real estate business so my situation is different than most as I have the entire scope of work completed by my own crews aside from a few items like plumbing that we sub out.Before that, I acted as the GC as owner builder and hired each individual sub.

IMHO, the REI Industry is The best chance that an individual has to quickly and successfully become self-employed. 

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This would give you more than enough time to meet that 2 year employment history, and you can refi it for a long term loan via a bank. 4.

It's not in my current lease, but I will have several units open over the next month, so it's still an addition to my lease that I might want to add.

In addition the majority of the not so experienced are either out of state (OOS) or planning on going OOS.So I am not recommending against going to the San Diego BP social as much as 1) setting an expectation 2) suggesting you may want to go to a meetup maybe associated with an RE investor club.BTW there used to be a near monthly BP Meetup at various RE investment properties.