I personally use the mass text capabilities through my Resident RE CRM.However I have a few friends who wholesale and invest and use Mobile Monkey to mass text and from what they say the price is pretty reasonable.

When your LLC takes a loan, expect as members to personally guarantee the debt.

i think you can be successful if you are willing to do what you alluded to, which is spend time in person in your chosen market. 

You can find something in Durham and parts of Raleigh, specifically zips 27610, 27603, and parts of 27604 that would meet your criteria, however generally speaking most of the inventory that would fit what you are looking for in Raleigh or Durham would likely be in neighborhoods that I personally wouldn't want to invest in, C- to D type neighborhoods.

You are correct… if a person has 600k and they can afford to risk it going alone in a new country and that’s what they want to do with the money then why not go it alone.

Personally, my favorite way of sourcing deals is building relationships with brokers and nurturing those relationships by checking in consistently.

Because personal growth and financial stability sounded like a better combo than Netflix and takeout.

When was the last time my coach/mentor/instructor personally closed a deal? 

Quite the opposite - I invest my personal money as just one more member, in each investment we end up doing as a club. 

I personally had two encounters with Zach.