If the purchase price is $400K, you can write the offer so that the net amount to the seller is $398K.Lastly, if you believe there is opportunity in your local market, educate the BP community!

Educate Yourself:Even though you're already making moves, there's always more to learn.

I have seen him get angry at other students in his program who got publicly vocal inside his FB group about the terrible deals in the marketplace.

@William Coet it’s a different business model altogether.I love highly desirable areas that attract highly skilled high income college educated workforces.They tend to be more liberal and therefore the landlord tenant laws.The percent of their income that goes to rent is typically much less than 20% so a rental increase of 5-10% is nothing to them.They are typically lower cap rate areas and therefore every dollar of net operating income that is earned is explosive to the underlying asset value.

As Nate said, one of your options is to take over the property completely.Another option is to educate your partner.

From an outside viewer, I would be nervous to work with either one of you, since you are fast to go public with any grievance and the realtor has poor communication skills and has no problem blaming external circumstances for lack of a simple courtesy call.

Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking and is full of great content.I recommend that you check out the following resources:1.

Bigger Pockets is a great place for education and networking and is full of great content.I recommend that you check out the following resources:1.

Hi Chris, I searched for properties near Eatonton that are available Nov 1st for less than $1200 on furnishedfinder.com and found 3 SE of Eatonton and 1 NE that meet that criteria.I chose $1200 because FF shares some of their data publicly at furnishedfinder.com/stats.

That’s not me.As far as your "un-educated" excuse, I've met some well-educated types I don't dare turn my back on, so think again about how you're perceived.I’m WELL educated and know EXACTLY how I’m perceived.