I love reading success stories here and you had a great strategy of fixing up a property you were familiar with to create incredible gains.

If you are a new investor please make sure you read all of my comments.I believe that the statements being made are incredibly qualitative/philosophical and show a massive lack of understanding of both finance and real estate.

We are so lucky to have this incredible resource and generous community of like-minded folks. 

For example, TenantCloud will push (syndicate) your advertised rental to multiple websites at once, casting a wider net and increasing the chances of finding a renter.No matter how wide you cast the net, you still need to have some pre-screening requirements to weed out the people that are wasting your time.

Quote from @Mike Eichler: "Guesty" is incredible.

Incredibly he is still acting like nothing is wrong...

There is plenty of competition among agents, and I see a wide range ofcommission structures to choose from.

Like Detroit, Saint Louis is incredibly "block by block" where one area is experiencing gentrification or at least just a stable middle class feel and that might only be 100 yards away from a street that will be un rentable, un managemeable, and honestly a bad place to get out of your car.  

Makes it very hard to do multiple at a time, you could utilize a wide variety of loan options to scale faster but I wouldn’t recommend going max leverage on them.

I'm excited to connect, learn, and grow with this incredible community as I search for my first property.