You can create your own methods and one stop shop by creating your own leads.

.🔹 Ideal in Any Market – Whether home prices are rising or falling, lease options allow you to lock in today’s price while benefiting from future appreciation.Other creative strategies—like seller financing, subject-to deals, and the BRRRR method—can also open doors, but lease options remain one of the most powerful, low-risk, minimal cash out-of-pocket ways to build a portfolio.

Sounds like this could possibly be a Schedule C activity so keep self employment tax in mind.

If you have your own business/self-employed you might qualify for a Solo 401(k) or multi-participant 401k whereby you can self-direct into real estate with those funds. 

What are the best sources or methods you use to accurately set rental rates in your area?

Interest rates and cap rates change, competition changes, your PM ends up being horrible, lots of variables.Just to throw you a monkey wrench, in your killer spreadsheet does it include the credit score, income, and employer of every resident? 

Lenders will want a letter from your employer that states you are allowed to work remote from where you currently live and that this move will not affect your income. 

I picked up the BRRRR method book and feeling confident in setting it all up (we did a similar process for our Airbnbs).  

As a former employee of Kristin Witherspoon, I was subjected to repeated instances of non-payment, which is a clear violation of basic employment principles.

The only two ways to rectify this are (1) purchase the property far below market price or (2) significantly increase the property net income usually through some method of “repositioning”.