I am open to trying what you do with the higher price on one of my properties just to test it.

Mostly due to the fact my spouse and I agreed on her to have zero involvment in any sort of RE investing (and its our home) I think once you have a good 6-12 months of reserve cash (operating expenses for your own life saved as a back up incase things go bad) save enough liquidity to get the ball rolling on your first invesment.

It's a grind to get the snowball rolling down the hill.

This allows you to test their communication, leasing strategy, and overall management style before committing fully.

I find it critical to test those assumptions under different scenarios when I’m looking at a deal.

Now you need to get the construction rolling, only the 130k rehab is in escrow and your contractor, if he is worth a grain of salt, will want at least a 20k - 25k deposit on a job of that size, maybe more. 

Great call on Thumbtack, I will start to test out smaller jobs on there and see what I can find! 

•Work with lenders that roll fees into closing costs(some hard money lenders do this).

I gave it the Nickproof tug and it passed the test.

I'm testing with the California addresses you put in there at the bottom.import requestsfrom geopy.geocoders import Nominatimimport jsonimport timeAPIFY_API_URL = '' # Plug in the provided API URLdef geocode_address(address): geolocator = Nominatim(user_agent="redfin_scraper", timeout=10) # Increased timeout to 10 seconds try: location = geolocator.geocode(address) if location: return location.latitude, location.longitude except Exception as e: print(f"Error geocoding address {address}: {e}") return None, Nonedef search_redfin(lat, lng): search_url = f"https://www.redfin.com/stingray/do/location-autocomplete?