I would of course still suggest you work a job, and use RE to supplement your salary, and slowly you'll have a point where your RE income will be able to cover all of your expenses or exceed your salary. 

There are also supplement loan features built into commercial financing that allow cash out once the property has been re-positioned.The most important factor is the profit per property...profit per unit is not as relevant. 

Again, get with people that have had positive experience working with a variety of lenders that could enable you to choose one that best fit your needs and financial situation.

(I considered it good practice for screening future tenants.)If you're seeing cheap room rent in places like Oakland, Berkeley, or San Jose, that could be from A) larger houses with lots of rooms, B) older homeowners looking to supplement income, or C) homeowners looking to attract college students or startup employees. 

FHA), that would enable you to put as low as 3.5% down on a multi-family property, as long as you were living in one of the units. 

Any suggestions for good audiobooks to supplement my education?  

Broker-dealers have historically avoided the part of the industry currently being served by the platforms as well because it is extremely hard to make any money there with all of the regulatory burdens absent some sort of RIA co-investment type model that is supplemented by other sources of revenue.  

We are interested in buy and hold properties, SFRs up to four plexes, to supplement our current incomes and create passive income for the future.

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