None of those areas have excess housing.I question if housing is going to see a boost in value over the near term due to not having enough housing to accommodate the displaced fire victims.  

Appreciate the kind words.Looking to 2025, my #1 goal is to expand my portfolio by purchasing and house hacking a second 3-4 flat.

Again even if you have great credit as you start to add more credit cards, mortgages, auto loans to your credit you can also be viewed as "High risk" due to Excessive trade lines in credit or higher DTI - debt to income ratios. 

When a tenant moves out, transfer the deposit back to Checking so it's ready to apply towards expenses or refund the Tenant.If you end up with excess funds in the Checking account, I recommend you transfer it to a third account designated explicitly for future investments.

As an agent myself this is something I'd do and frankly if you already have everything done and do it on a regular basis I'd just negotiate a flat fee or percentage per acquisition that they coordinate once you find it. 

Look at the application, start pricing third party flat fee services for each step.

They often won’t tell you about problems until it affects their wallet, and they’ll flat-out lie if it suits their needs.

But again, your profit after selling costs (and any capex improvements) would have to be in excess of $60ok to really make sense.

this is JUST FLAT INSANE what they people have done..  

The issue we are running into is that lenders are not recognizing the excess amount he earns as income, therefore it looks like he will not be able to afford any loans that he would be approved for.