I expect the $400 mo profit to be eaten up by maintenance.

Books that influenced me greatly:Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance;Atlas Shrugged; to love is to be happy with.

She is a regular at the BWI meetup in Columbia.

You will also not be able to qualify for any type of mortgage or finance to buy a regular single family either.My best advice to you would be to work, get a secured credit card ASAP (or two or three) to build your credit as I did (currently 3 years in with a 780 score) and get a multifamily (2-4 units) and get an FHA loan.

I (believe) he had planned on making it a regular thing, but again, not positive.

I would look very careful at the deferred maintenance.

Just make sure they know you will inspect regularly and everything will be okay.I will warn you though, in my experience, a lot of section 8 tenants are not the best house keepers and the fact that they have small kids adds to the mess.

I figure it would be higher maintenance.

I have 30+ years of historical data in the form of leases, maintenance records, capital expenses, etc.

I know one in Atlanta and that's how I'm buying my next property.Everyone asks for rent rolls, but hardly anyone looks hard enough at maintenance reports.