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. 

This would allow me to get into the house for almost nothing out of pocket if it works, but I am wondering if Fannie/Freddie guidelines disallow something like this.

I'm wondering if anybody has used their service and what's it like?

I was wondering if folks had insight on quotes for landlord insurance.

In order to do that I must organize my finances and wondered if anyone had a great excel spreadsheet they can recommend to begin creating and daily & monthly budget with the goal of maximizing my savings to have the funds for a down payment.

Initially it was difficult to find good tenants - people were still loosing jobs in Phoenix at the time of purchase.

She now wants to do a complete gut job or even tear it down and rebuild it into a 3-family house.

I just wonder how do you guys find motivated seller or FSBO type of seller (no offense to real estate agent).

Just like being in the military everything is regulations, but nothing really made sense about my job until I went overseas and actually did it.

It can be difficult, not impossible, to do the acquisition, renovation, and leasing if you have a full time job.