The clean up costs are immense and if not done properly, the smell of smoke will leach out, especially during the summer when the grain of the wood opens up.

Read up on your States landlord tenant laws, this will help you immensely in the end 

It was immensely helpful for me to start my first BRRRR.DM me if interested - I can give you an intro and likely get you set up with a trial of his deal package.Hope this helps!

I’ve bought previous investments through an agent and they helped immensely in getting all my responses (expenses).

But this is also a neighborhood rich in African-American history, having been the first neighborhood in Atlanta, where black people were allowed to own.

There are a couple Homevestor (We Buy Ugly Houses) franchises that get deals in our area as well that they wholesale.It can be a difficult market for wholesaling, however, because of the immense amount of new construction inventory, the high LTVs that come with the VA loan and mean that homeowners don't have equity, and a buyer friendly market that means most of the transaction costs fall on the seller.It's a pretty solid rental market, though, and finding properties to wholesale to buy-and-hold type investors is probably a route you could explore.

Therefore tools that help me with relationship building are immensely valuable.

Those of us who have experienced it firsthand understand the immense difficulty involved and deserve recognition for successfully navigating this complex endeavor.

I was originally looking for a live-in flip until my super smart and patient realtor Daniel Kidd explained the immense benefits of using your VA loan on a small multi-family property.

I believe it might be best to narrow your search criteria a little because you're really looking at multiple different REI opportunities of immensely varying complexity given the price points you've named.I do think you've got a solid starter plan, I hope you can realize it and succeed in 2020 and beyond!