We have been reading post after post for the past two years from (1) members who are fed up with the market (2) members who are having a hard time starting in a hot market and (3) members who have highly appreciated properties but don't have an alternative investment option if they were to sell or exchange.Deal flow is king in this market and you have to (1) put hundreds of deals through the funnel via marketing and networking or (2) you have to invest with someone who has it.I made a decision two years ago to do more of the latter...to start heavily vetting passive opportunities with experienced sponsors who have mature deal flow pipelines (i.e. deep broker relationships, industry leaders, full time staff dedicated to deal flow, consistent off-market properties)...while still casually vetting direct owned opportunities. 

The deep in the weeds seller financing and lease option threads tend to go that way, so I don't much bother anymore especially if the asker doesn't even bother to have a profile pic.

The world of credit card sign up bonuses is extremely broad and deep (too deep to go into detail in this post) but you should be able to hit multiple minimum spend requirements (MSRs) and receive significant bonus value. 

This included drilling holes underneath the crawl space from outside (No basement in house) so the poison could get very deep under the ground. 

I have dug deep into this topic and can discuss specifics if interested. 

If I were in your shoes, I would dig deep into the numbers and try to understand how the asset can reasonably perform in your market.

Aside from that you will need vey deep pockets to be able to build the infrastructure and carry the property for a decade before you see any positive returns.

I couldn't compete with the deep pocket investors out there.

I am very tight with my Banker of 24 years.. and when we do social things together we get to chatting.. they wont even look at someone with no experience .. unless they are a VERY high paid W 2 or business owner that is going to drop a million or so in their bank and they do it for the on going relationship.. and its gotten no eaiser.now to be fair out in the mid west and deep south tons of smaller banks that are more apt to lend on small balance rentals. our west coast banks would not even look at them .. they will only do MF and larger.. they have no interest in loans on SFR rentals.. one because frankly we don't have many .. price of SFR's make renting them out not all the great.. and they let that business go to the national Federally backed loans.. small community banks don't lend  those types of money.. its their money. 

Now, we're not talking an 18 foot deep high dive pool down there...it might be 1" - 2" deep (but, I'm still trying to decipher the photo from my inspector and get a hold of him).It also (oddly) looks to be on top of a sheet of plastic.