As with anything, there is speed, quality, and price, but we only get to pick 2.PM me if you have any other questions on contractors or your options.

Kind of like if a cop gives you a speeding ticket, the cop shouldn't also get to be the judge if you choose to fight it, right? 

I bought my 3 buy and hold properties cash, the benefit is speed of closing, which often means a better price and beating out competition.

It is important to be able to analyze the trailing 12 month financial statement of a property and take a deeper look at the loss to lease by examining the rent roll.Ideally, you are lucky enough to have an excel version of the rent roll provided to you by the broker or the owner you are interacting with on your potential acquisition (or.. if you or someone you know is developing a character recognition software that is able to read a PDF version of a rent roll and convert it to a nice, clean excel version please let me know!).

That reports the non recognition of gain and lets them set up the new depreciation schedules etc.     

Advantage here is I don't have to pursue outside investors and speed of cash access. 

I like more specific results, so detailed analysis is more my speed.

What you lose there you will pick up on cash on cash returns and if executed well you will also be able to grow with more speed.  

According to the Realtor I spoke with, there are 5 people he has on speed dial for when he comes across a deal like what I am looking for, so I need to speedy finding them.  

This client I was offering for was not comfortable with that, but he was going to try and have his inspector, contractor, and himself all see the property on the first showing to speed things up and be ready to have funds in the sellers account in less than two weeks.