I'm in the similar market and have a good amount of connections.

I had a “lender” tell me he’d give me a personal loan with a fixed 4% rate on a 30 year term at whatever amount I wanted because he would like to “build a relationship” with me. 

This would help reduce the amount needed for a bridge loan to fund the acquisition and renovate the four vacant units.

I'm thinking of maybe just lumping them into a category under repairs or something but want to see if others have a It sounds like categorizing deductions under a ‘repairs’ category could work as a temporary fix, but it might not give you the full accuracy you’re looking for long-term.

My niche is the small amount of qualified Sending land that is also priced well below the value of the new credits that can be clipped off and resold for an arbitrage profit.

First step is always to cut the water source and fix the leak asap.

@Bob Asad at our bank, we have an escrow account for security deposits, it is set up with sub-accounts for each tenant with their security deposit amount and their SSN.

Depending on your goals and how many properties you plan to acquire it could be a decent amount of work.

Got paid for it and really enjoyed it, but that same amount of effort if done for us would have taken us to some really lofty levels.My friend is extremely happy.  

Welcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.