You will need to get as much of a P&L as you can from the business for the last two years and also run numbers on projections based on your competition's enemy method.

This option comes down to the investor's risk tolerance since you will likely leverage your primary home at a variable rate.3) The BRRRR method since most hard money lenders will allow you to acquire distress payments with as little as 10% down and grant you access to rehab funding via a bridge loan.

Anyone have some go to methods to figure out vacancy or have some first hand knowledge of the Nashville market for MTRs?

Is this the easiest way to find the meetups in your opinion

There just are far better and less expensive methods now.

The $10,000 spent on “education” was spent to learn a specific method, technique or strategy.  

Here are some methods I have used so far.Free Sources:- information, or free internet search like switchboard.com- pipl.com (not too bad for free - finds social networking sites too)- Courthouse records (shows previous subpoena addresses and if they have a driving offence their date of birth in my county.

OK get the easiest out of the way - Depreciation does give you a current year write off. 

DSCRThere are multiple considerations to optimize the refinancing portion of the BRRRR method.