However, we're committed to helping our clients and contacts as best we can which is why I'm seeking your recommendations here.If you have any recommendations or if you are an HOA manager with experience in this area, please get in touch.

@Yanting Wang many investors are buying, "build to rent" properties.They are all being told that in buying a new construction property, they shouldn't have maintenance issues for 5-10 years, which will increase their cashflow/profit.Well, tenants have a way of breaking things, not taking care of problems and letting them become maintenance issues, and this is on top of the fact that most new construction properties require several warranty repairs by the builder in the first 12 months.As others have pointed out, you must live in the property for the first 12 months for an FHA mortgage or take your chances with committing mortgage fraud.

Just commit and take action. 

. - Pre Approvals & Loan Commitments.

@James Rodenberg aside from the time commitment, there is a skillset requirement to self manage.

Real Lenders don’t ask borrowers how many points to charge them.Real Lenders rely upon title commitment / CPL to send loan proceeds to a title company. 

Hi Everyone,I am making a commitment to be more active on here, and going to try to post here a few times a month and also answer questions from my perspective for the younger investors.As the title suggests, I am a long time RE investor, have 3 properties 2 of which I rent out (one is cash flowing $700/mo , YES) I control 1M in assets, have about 250k in equity total.

I wouldn't worry about any of that, but I'd want to see it in person before I committed to that.Find a good basement guy to go take a look, usually not the guy with a wrapped truck.

The reason I am leaning this way is because I have money but not the time (probably can only commit 10-15 hours a week) since I want to keep my W2 job. 

In Oregon the buyers deposit is generally fully refundable during the standard 10 business day contingency period (unless waived) and the difference in deposit could be interpreted as the level of commitment the buyer has towards the transaction, within reason.