I do believe in organic leads and I don’t think you can scale appropriately via paid leads.

Even with the appeal win, the refi appraised value was ~$40k less than I could have achieved via a sale. 

@Donna YuI put around 12k down on my first rental which was a single-family rental rented out via section 8 here in Columbus OH.

I wanted to post this to warn my fellow investors about them, they do lease-to-owns buying houses dirt cheap from banks and sell them via LTO for often 600% more without doing any work to them.

Also, do you know if they verify the previous LL is actually the true owner of the property via tax or other records?  

Any businesses profit or loss is factored into a debt to income ratio for an owner occupied loan via the tax returns.

You visit the lender to their office, talk to them directly and input the number, don't ask via email.

To take measure of self, to learn and improve from "education via pain". 

.- Low operational cost- Good seasonality markets- Should be easier to operationalize service via property managers remotely.What are some of the strategies that have worked?

Without visually inspecting the sold comps via photos, you can segregate the renovated from distressed by chunking the $/sf of the resulting comps by quantile groupings.