With a budget of $300K-$400K, you could potentially find single-family homes or small multi-units in those areas.I'd recommend researching rental demand near universities like Duke or NC State or even checking out neighborhoods with strong job growth near tech hubs.

I have 0 experience ground up construction loan program nationwide that does NOT require GC to sign anything, only provide proof of 3 C/O's (certificate of occupancy) over the last year I.e. built received occupancy permission now unit is on market or habitable. 700+ FICO I can get you 80%LTC loan to cost on the project on ground up construction for 1-4 units.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

I can do this as I manage over 60 units and it makes the most sense, and I beat the market every month.If I had 1-5 units, I would like use PriceLabs (or Beyond Pricing) and use their base tech as well as manually checking things at minimum weekly.

If rent is 1500 per unit, well, now you are $6000  (1500 * 4) in deficit right from the start.

If we had a great tenant for 5.5 years at our property, we would not charge any cleaning fee outside of the excessive cleani gs (such as trash out of the shed). 5.5 years of not having to turn the unit and not dealing with vacancy is huge.

My partner and I have a couple units we manage as well in Washington DC.

The only caveat to that is if you have the ability to turn it into separate units I.E. having a 2/1 and 1/1 instead of a 3/2. 

I am looking in the 750k-1.1m range with between 6-10 units.

Maybe you should give it a go as well.Jay would need to have his assistant do that. :) WEll the nice folks at BP help me with all my back end things that i need to get done they have set up my entire whatever you call it..