If you told him you have been playing pickup games for the past year and need help improving your jump shot, now he has evidence you're motivated and a specific goal he can quickly help you work towards.

He is all about finding motivated sellers, negotiating with them, and finding buyers.

Unless you have buyer-in-hand or some other mission (e.g. subsidized housing or religious-based motives), I seriously think the risks are way more substantial than most people could handle.

That said, we're not overly familiar with this market, where to look, or what sort of funds would be required to allow a rental to work.Again, some sort of house hack and MTR strategy would be great but open to suggestions.

The property, previously on MLS without success, heightened the seller's motivation.

I have been running around to fix that and it will take another 6-7 months before the issue is sorted out and we rent it out.

But then again maybe the person has some sort of safety net for the dog, meaning a relative with a farm or something that would take the animal and your renter could stay.

In general they are going to have an accent of some sort so just having them call to test for good numbers and then you making the actual cold calls is a good idea.

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

My main motivation for the membership was probably for the tools, but I think that will come as I get closer to being ready to really start researching my first deal.