To thrive in real estate investing, you must maintain a firm grip on your finances.

You'll want to focus on securing a favorable financing deal at the refinance stage—ideally, you want to pull out as much of your initial investment as possible while keeping monthly payments manageable.A big consideration is understanding your after-repair value (ARV) and ensuring the rehab costs add value in proportion to that.

Quote from @Kristin Vegas: He sounds like an amateur that's probably in over his head.

Have you met in person? 

It takes a very long time to even get in the ballpark.

There's great advice in this thread already.

But in reality, nothing ever goes exactly as planed with real estate as there are always surprises- good and bad.

Hello,I recently just purchased a property that we will be doing a live in flip with.

As you may know, water in the City adds up.

I work in GA.