Your safest bet in something like this would be to live in it, rehab it, then sell it/rent it out and do it again.

You can do your due diligence and you will find an honest, trustworthy and professional company in the hot Detroit market.

@Kevin D. you need to find one quality team member that will intro you to other trustworthy members.Many investors start with an agent. 

I'm looking for ready to assemble (RTA) that do not have any particle board or OSB.Found RTACabinets.com which seems interesting but I'd like to look at some in person if possible, maybe even LA County.Current quote from HD (Home Depot) for their ready made in inventory cabinets is $2600, those are particle board low grade cabinets.I'm going to bet Kevin Fox replies in this thread.

I think your best bet would be to go through your rolodex and ask them what they are looking for (asset type, specific returns, timeline, etc) and become a bird dog/wholesaler where you would sell the deals you find.

I'd bet he makes more on the marketing side as opposed to actual RE Investing.

Apartment complexes normally are a safer bet for repairs, big SFH attract big groups of kids which will also increase parties of course

I like the purchase we made because the numbers work well for LTR as well as STR, so regardless of how things end up going with the STR business - we're in a pretty good spot.I'd advise others to do something similar, hedging bets just seems to put ourselves in the best spot possible when the economy is on the fence like it is now

.$20k-$50k is a good amount to fund 2-3x improvements for people looking to sell with clear improvement scopes of work with trustworthy contractors on 2nds up to 60% LTV.These are harder to find, especially with fewer people selling, but I suppose a network of agents,  title cos and lenders would help source opportunities in this space. 

Trustworthy - they understand that bad news doesn't get better with time.