I knew nothing about that part until I walked my own renovation with the contractor and electrician. 

I have looked into a few ways to start off but would like to connect with people who are having success and can walk me through how to start.

While I am there I will be meeting with agents, lenders, viewing properties, and being closer to my rental properties once I purchase them to do the check-in, walk-throughs, maintenance, etc.The other question I run into is what business to put these expenses under.

Est ARV is 100-120K (good school district and solid B neighborhood).I haven't walked it yet (I will next week), but according to seller, it just needs paint, flooring throughout, new kitchen countertops (possibly cabinets too).

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Instead of walking away, I saw it as an opportunity and IMMEDIATELY submitted TWO simultaneous cash offers.

We lived in a job site, full of dust, walking around in flip flops as we slowly renovated our house room by room over the course of 2-3 years.

Some areas have walk-out basements too.

This has contributed to lower inventory as sellers are hesitant to walk away from their historically mortgage costs, but the start of the pandemic era rates is now four years ago (2020) and life events often eventually force property sales.

Well, it worked, but only because it was already a smoking deal and I was just trying to shake a few more pennies from the cushion - otherwise, I would have walked and had my agent tell them to sell it to the other offer ;)On the plus side, I now know how this particular agency operates, and I will avoid their listings in the future.