Pick a screening platform/application that makes sense for you.As for meeting the applicants, I recommend meeting them at the property to show the place to them rather than getting coffee or food with them.

If there's one thing that every new real estate investor can benefit from is that you'll be successful if you don't step over dollars to pick up dimes.

I'm out West at the moment, but will probably be returning to Tokyo before too much longer.At the risk of being contrarian, after picking up a couple of investment properties in Japan (one Tokyo, one outskirts), I shifted to a strategy of only investing in the US. 

That’s because it can include renting furniture and decor to more fully transform a space.How Do I Know Which One To Pick?

Any sober living investors out there willing to let me pick their brain on how to underwrite a potential deal?

I will take that over 200.00 a month positive cash flow :)  All the while running my Capital Partner business and funding over 120 deals a year for my hand picked clients. lThat's a nice combination.

Get 3 jobs...if you work 8-5pm pick up OT or an evening job, and a weekend job. 

Then pick up the blue in the window coverings.

A friend of mine picked up a duplex there last year for under $150K, added some sweat equity, and turned it into a cash cow.Chattanooga, TN: This market has been quietly making waves.

I'd pick the closing day if they already live there, but haven't signed the lease.