I ended up paying 25K and they hauled out 120 thousand pounds of trash.

They literally wrote the book on midterm rentals and cover how to analyze markets.

Quote from @Piper Pepperidge: Looking to do my first flip, was originally looking at baltimore, but it looks like it's moving towards a buyer's market and inventory is very high so I'm looking for other hot neighbors with low inventory.ThanksHottest markets are inner ring dc suburbs, moco, nova, even Howard and Frederick, I can tell though if you are a 1st time flipper you will lose money, I’ve been doing this for nearly a decade and I cannot hit my numbers, I met with a flipper a few weeks doing 12 a month, has his own crews, buys off market, literally a full time business, even he is struggling , it’s a bad time to flip right now tbh. 

You were literally paying to play PM by not increasing the rent.

I have clients at my W2 who didn't do this and are now paying environmental remediation companies (like the one I work at) hundreds of thousands to clean it up, by order of the EPA, even though the PREVIOUS owner caused the issue.

we just got an estimate from a solar company today, they wanted us to go through the hero program. just running the numbers in my head, i figured out i would pay triple the amount of the loan over 25 years, there was a loan fee of three thousand dollars, the 1500 dollar veteran discount was put into the loan, the 1500 dollar rebate was put into the loan, by paying cash i will break even after five years, instead of paying 25 years. as far as im concerned the program is a joke. it will put you in the hole and you may never climb out of it. figure out a better way to pay for your home improvements, this one smells predatory.

If it is highly compeitive like my market of Orlando, guests have thousands of homes to choose from, so they will filter differently than someone that is going to Ft.

I had a tenant who paid late every single month, like she’d usually give me half early in the month, and the other half after like the 20th, I literally didn’t care, she never missed a payment (she did abandoned here dog in my garage after she moved, but that’s a whole different story) but as long as you are getting paid in full every month you should be happy lol. 

I literally had to put both tenants in a nearby hotel for a week.

If you're not from a market and have no experience, you should keep your opinion to yourself instead of recommending to a NEW flipper to get started in literal C and D neighborhoods.