My husband and I have always wanted to reach our investments into the area I'm now working so wondering if we can pull this off and take advantage of the situation.We found a 3-unit near town with one unit vacant.

I started filling out the UCC-1, but was wondering if one of the addendum forms would be more appropriate?

I’m looking to buy a third property to live in so that i can ret the other two and I was wondering if I could switch my two conventional loans into an LLC which would be rental properties?

For example, we get a tenant who seems wonderful but ends up inviting her boyfriend or other family member who smokes and has a pit-bull to live with her halfway through the lease without telling us.

@Jimmy O'Connor - Wholesaling is perhaps the hardest job in real estate investing and it's where most newbies think they can get started.

If this money is conserved, it will go a long way toward your second purchase when you move out in one year or so.House hacking is my favorite way for investors to start, good job with the plan. 

Only buy quality tools; makes the job much easier.  

An opportunity to move from the Buffalo, NY area to the Rochester, NY area has just come up with my husband's new job offer and we're trying to figure out our next move and if it's time to try our hand in real estate.

Im planning on looking for a duplex to house hack in the Twin Cities, MN, and I was wondering if I should even bother looking into other loans?

Of course that floor joist carried all the weight of the roof, transferring to downstairs wall, so we had to stop the job, get a structural engineer and have a fix done.