I myself have been wanting to get into learning about the stock side of investing but for now, I know that I have more control over the profits on real estate than I do with paper assets so I'm waiting until I have a few properties under my belt before I dive into that.

@brie Schmidt you always have great content thank you can't wait until we can work together 

Besides the points mentioned above of being a good landlord, One important factor is to manage their expectations.Make sure both of you are on the same page.

I think it's a no brainer to put some money here but I wonder if the city is just waiting and trying to buy up everything so they can tear it all down and make a fill-in-the-blank-whatever and then I'm stuck with a rental across the street from this ____?

Here is the link that @Brent Griffin mentioned.

Should I sit out of the RE market, hope I don't burn through my capital, waiting for the next downturn and set of opportunities then?

I'll add headers so you can skip over the boring parts if you so choose.A little about meLike I mentioned earlier, my name is Jack and I'm 27.

I watch a lot of webinars and always here Brandon turner talk about how he loves house hacking / BRRR strategy but I haven't heard him mention this info.

Would someone maybe suggest I not go this route and just wait to get approved for more and get the duplex?

I would mention to the person you do know that you would be interested in purchasing the home and see if they know the families position on selling.