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Starting with a single-family home in Kansas City is a smart move, and it sounds like you’re really digging into the numbers, which is super important for making informed decisions.From what you’ve shared, your offer of $140,000 with an 8% interest rate and a 20% down payment seems like a solid starting point.

Before bigger pockets moved the rent estimator to pro users only it estimated rent to be around $975 I don't know or have anything to go by but I thought that was high.

You are on a great trajectory and learning curve because you are learning from your mistakes and also preparing to move slowly instead of scaling before you are ready.

If the law allows, I will sometimes move the personal items to storage, which is much cheaper than lost rent, so I can clean up the rental and find a new tenant.

However, they all require separate applications to even get an estimate.

Fake investors, you can sell the dream, the hustle is sold separately  thats why lottery tickets sell so well.. dream with no effort. 

I just want to move on.

I'm a wholesaler on track to move 150 properties this year.

Taking action and learning from those actions are key to moving ahead.