And I have a short blog post on some classic books on landlording (on right side of my profile) that should be free at a library or low cost used...thanks for your service, too, btw...

You may want to decide between the more steady buy and hold or the faster pace flip to help pick a property and strategy...perhaps a full flip book like those on BP if that is the course and I have some low cost or free (at library) books on landlording if that is the next stop,in journey (see the blog post "classics of lanldord lit" on my profile)...BP has calculators for both strategies....

This is a classic chicken and egg scenario.

To make a long story short, he made a classic error and commingled funds a few years prior and opened him up to liability.

Let me know if you want any good starters...I am more into the practical ones (like a classic Leigh Robinson Landlording type book) ...many great ones out there...Best of luck

I was trained in Internet and Network security and that is a classic example of a scam post.

It feels classic Millionaire Real Estate Investor formula but now that I am staring it in the face, I am having indecision.  

Of course you can do all the classic due diligence on that person- Google, Facebook, Linkedin, HCAD, County clerk.

Oh, and according to the roofer, the brick chimney sucks in water and there are classic signs of that happening here.

Also check from both ends of the heating element to ground (the metal chassis of the dryer), some elements can break apart and short to ground that way.A "classic" dryer will have at least one regular thermostat, located somewhere in the air flow, that switches the heat off and on as the dryer runs.