I had created some criteria and a process that I got to put through it paces.

@William Pace Welcome to Bigger Pockets.

The units were also being upgraded (albeit at a very slow pace).So, as you can imagine I was super excited to find a deal where we could not only improve management, but also increase rents and not have to spend a ton of money to on CAPEX and repositioning.

I live and work as a property manager in Rome and the sales prices are reasonable while the rental market is as fast paced as it has been in a while. 

Mocellie and Jimmy, given the slow pace of lawyers, I'm probably at least a couple of months away from being set up to lend money, but if you'd like me to get in touch when the time comes I'd be happy to do that.

Finding and retaining help to increase the pace is critical to me and my business and is currently my greatest challenge keeping me from expansion.   

It was a slow start but now it is moving at a quicker pace. 

You may want to decide between the more steady buy and hold or the faster pace flip to help pick a property and strategy...perhaps a full flip book like those on BP if that is the course and I have some low cost or free (at library) books on landlording if that is the next stop,in journey (see the blog post "classics of lanldord lit" on my profile)...BP has calculators for both strategies....

Its slower pace here, properties are cheaper.

., I actually have a meeting set tomorrow with M&T Bank's mortgage department.The primary agenda of the visit was information on refinancing but I'll be sure to get some details from their side as well on HELOCs.