While the DC and Philly comparison is tempting, I don't think that kind of growth will translate to D neighborhoods in Baltimore City.

It takes some time, but there’s plenty of YouTube videos of learning how to flip books and other items on amazon and eBay from goodwills and such that can translate to real estate later in life.Read Scott Trenches “Set for Life” and househack as soon as possible.

b) Risk Tolerancec) Time you can put into this - do you want to be completely passive or actived) Skills - what business skills do you have that can translate to real estate investinge) Your local market - for example, is apartment investing profitable in your market or maybe houses work better?

What I can assure you is that if you're using a broker, and not communicating directly with the lender, there's definitely a chance something will be lost in translation.  

A few thoughts: 1) We will see a big drop in GDP in Q1 and Q2 - in a consumer driven market this will translate into real estate.

In most cases it is NOT to learn a skill that translates directly into a job.

On a low down payment deal, this translates to a significant bump in ROI, and even if I were putting more down, a few thousand a year for the life of a deal is worth a few hours of my time to shop around. 

I provided my own trusted translator. 

For every horror story there is translations that go smoothly.

He probably also doesn't want to have to fork out any more money trying to get her settled, and so he's trying to get her move-in money back for her.Just a guess, but I've been in similar situations.This is an item I added to my criteria for things I would deny applicants for - if they show up with someone who said they weren't going to live in the unit, but they were doing all or most of the talking - and it wasn't a need for a translator.