Staring my rental property investing

[Stian Jones]

My mother, brother and I are starting our real estate investing journey. We are looking at quadplexes in New London county, Connecticut. My brother and I are are handy but do not know how to figure out the price of any renovation or potential problems that will come up in the near future. What are some options that can help us budget in any extra cost or reno? Would you recommend doing a walk through with a contractor? If so, how would you recommend finding them and/or if you know any local to my area I would love connecting with them. We do plan on house hacking and using a VA loan because my brother and I are Marine Corps Veterans. If you have any advise and local to me I would like to take you out for coffee, lunch or a zoom call to connect. if you're not local but would like to connect and talk through zoom I welcome that as well.

Thank you :)