., excellent points.

@Ben Trageser those are excellent points, thank you for the perspective!

I have excellent credit and I'm debt free!

if someone has extensive knowledge, a verifiable track record of success, and excellent credit it IS possible to purchase real estate with no personal capital committed.

Then use a basic Excel sheet to allocate your monthly ending cash balance or at any point in time across taxes, CapEx, reserves, etc, effectively creating a zero-based cash budget.

This sounds like an excellent deal.

To start out, Hospitable is excellent—simple to use with very responsive customer support.

That said, don’t overlook the Midwest—I invest there myself, and it’s been excellent for finding affordable deals with strong margins and less competition compared to the Southeast hotspots.

I love the Katy area because of the excellent school districts which is one of the key buy box criteria when investing. 

. - ie don’t buy a dog property to save taxes.While BP is excellent in many ways, I would caution you against accepting free advice from people you don’t know on BP when hundreds of thousands of dollars are involved.In my mind, better to spend $10,000 to get advice from someone who really knows this stuff.