We put an emphasis on vacant prospects, those with separate meters and realistic balance sheets which when combined with the right financing terms and management can still produce a healthy and safe addition or anchor to a portfolio. 

A combination of hard money and private money How did you add value to the deal?

For me combination of 1 and 2 works out.I let my PM handle the tenant placement, rent collection and, if needed, evictions. 

Please scrutinize the crap out of my numbers! 

I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I want to do next and I keep coming back to the idea of either doing home flips, long term rentals, short term rentals, or a combination of them.

I have a duplex that I lease out, and recently got married where my wife and I are over 150k (salaries combined).

Since starting in March 2020, I have built 16 a property portfolio alongside my business partner combined with rental arbitrage properties, properties under our management sector, and even properties and land that we have bought of our own.

Another thing to note, my wife and I make combined about 350k so we can afford the monthly payment comfortably. 

Even though you may be hit with a hire tax rate if its your own business you can get expense the crap out of it and lower the taxable income as much as possible.

I have about 75k in HYSA and an Investment account combined.