Brian is a landlord and real estate investor, who started his career as the real estate department manager for a national mortgage lender, and has been a lender's home inspector, an account executive specializingin investor renovation loans, a settlement officer, and has overseen dozens of property renovations.
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room." - Anonymous
One of the best resources on the web for beginning landlords and real estate investors is EZ Landlord Forms' landlord article library, which includes summaries of all fifty states' landlord-tenant laws. Their document builder wizards also include State Assist information that summarize relevant state law information at each step of the process for each legal form.
HSH has a free mortgage calculator, which is helpful for determining what you can afford when you're evaluating investment properties.
Brian also keeps a series of real estate investing blogs, including a landlording blog called Landlord Gospel.