.: I already knew something like this was going to eventually happen.

I am wanting to get into fix and flips and eventually long term rentals. 

I love the dedication of not giving up and eventually received a second chance. truly remarkable.

We are looking to eventually relocate to the States"--that's great, a lot of people want to invest remotely in a totally random market and never go to it.  

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Quote from @Alex Messner: Hello,My wife and I are looking into buying our first home with hopes to eventually accrue multiple properties for renting. 

I’m looking to start in DFW since I live in Arlington but eventually I’ll be open to other markets to diversify my portfolio.  

The house is a new construction in a Class C neighborhood.The tenants pay late rate ~50% of time, they damaged part of the garage, they have people not of the lease living there, and they leave trash in the yard.Part of me wants to keep these tenants because:-They do pay eventually-I don't want vacancy-The turnover costs could/will be high-How much more damage could they do?

I currently broker LIHTC multi-family for a large firm coast to coast and am also interested in MF in the Arizona submarkets as well, and will eventually invest on that scale - I just figure breaking into the state through SFH flips may be a more risk adverse way to understand the pros and cons to phoenix submarkets.

As we continued to scale, we eventually added a positions to start taking some of my wife's responsibilities.