And it's convenient for life if you use your personal bank account, you can still have one app for rentals and paying friends.-  Con's:  Nothing about the software per say, but about the landlord experience. 

There are tons of beginner friendly hard money investors on here that will lend to a first time flipper, although it may be a higher rate, their expertise will be invaluable. 

Would love to connect, both DSCR and Hard Money are great investor-friendly common loans.

When you are investor friendly it means you understand the metrics of the buyers property search.I have seen so many agents get comfortable and simply add their new buyers to the "Hot Sheet" and they blast the buyers with properties that do not even fit the buyers cash flow needs or budget.

Work with an investor-friendly agent, explore up-and-coming neighborhoods, and consider value-add opportunities.

Not all lenders will allow this, that is called an Overlay, but per guidelines, this is allowed since 2017.

I spent time writing forum guidelines, getting them approved,and then implementing them.Once I started actually moderating the spam, eXp got kickback because all of the spammers were mad that their fake posts were being taken down in seconds by me.

Clean, friendly, activity rich and lots of employment driving growth as far as I found. 

When my friend started using them they were aggressively looking for rental portfolios in the market so he is sort of grandfathered in with them.Hope this helps with your decision.

Rather than looking at "good" areas, I'd ask you what cities/metro areas you like to visit or where you already have family or friends that live there.