It’s a balancing act of controlling costs while also controlling risk of personal injury to your tenants and property visitors as well as maintaining goodwill with all involved at the properties. 

Again, this topic can be discussed AT LENGTH as well so let me know if you want to go further into it.My suggestion to every new investor is to trust your instinct. 

If you can get your Vantage Score up 50 points, you will see positive results on the mortgage scores as well, it just may be 30 or 40 points or could be 60 to 80 point increase vs Vantage increase of 50 points. 

I will also strongly encourage accessibility for pets as well. 

Expect any step needs to play well w/1031.

Well, you can get them to sign a "Permission to Show" that will have the price they are willing to sell, and what your "wholesale" fee would be.

I now am more selective about loan officers as well as lenders. 

There's so much information here on BiggerPockets as well as the podcast and books and other websites, books and blogs too that are either free or very cheap. 

Meetup.com is pretty good, I'd check out here on BP and facebook as well. 

Best regards,Jayson ALehi, Utah I have been trying to grow in the wholesale aspect as well Jayson!