If you guys can just give me a week or so ( wife and I just had baby #2 ), I will set up a virtual meet up and look into doing one in person about a month out from now.

Ooooo baby HUD + Lead paint = fun!  

I encourage you to look at the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point); prices are lower and returns are higher than in the Triangle where I live, and sounds like compared to Asheville too. The

I tell my tenants by paying rent on time they can build their credit and people seem to like that too. The

If the property is a small multi-family (4 units or less) in Brooklyn where we are or anywhere in NYC you want that baby vacant.

I guess the reason I'm writing this is to finally get into talking with this amazing community, I believe this will be a baby step on my dream of making a name of myself.I really want to get into apartment complexes because I want to physically create something that a large group of people can enjoy together (just like a family).

Just the sleep dep talking I guess, combined with a rough year in landlording paradise with an unusual amount of churn as well as unexpected cap ex: a gnarly eviction, a tenant that OD'd in a unit, a hailstorm that trashed a $30k roof, another hail storm that did a lot of random damage with hail chunks a tenant described as being cauliflower head/cannonball sized which broke a solid oak deck handrail among many other things on the property, a sewer line that needed to be replaced which required jack hammering up the slab in a kitchen I had just finished fully remodeling, plus the new baby and the two other babies it's been quite a long year already so far.

I have big concerns also about injuring any animals with the traps or inadvertedly leaving babies behind.

Not enough babies. 

I've been living in this house for 20+ years and was just a baby when we moved here.