It would help us to understand the attainability of your goal if you would mention how many flips you have under your belt already.Assuming you are experienced, then I'd say move forward, full speed ahead--you can do it.If you are inexperienced, I would respectfully suggest you change from a $$$-oriented goal to a ### of transactions goal.Why?

Having established relationship will help to get better rates too.

Going with the latter and hoping to establish a relationship with the local lender going forward. 

The most powerful is simply keeping your properties in good condition, treating residents with respect, and following the law. 

Keyrenter is an established residential property management company with close to 10,000 properties across the country.

If you have no lates in the last 12 months and re-established credit meaning you have atleast 3 tradelines you have made ontime payments on for the last 12-24 months you may be eligible for VA financing with 580 min or lower scores depending on the scenario.Most of the time these type of files with be a total cluster and require 30-40 conditions ranging from letters of explanation, additional documentation, and or other to close.

Francis, If you haven't, start establishing a relationship with some lenders in your area.

Their course is more affordable than Bosch & Seth's (though I do not discount the value both bring - and the respect they have in the industry).

My main goal is to identify an opportunity that can be scaled from a couple of spots to a dozen, to several dozen eventually without the need to completely re-design or re-engineer the layout without respect to providing utilities. 

BE RESPECTABLE.