Of the 20 rental homes I personally own, I did purchase them all using a hard money little to no money out of pocket method. 

At this point, and for the previous year, he’s been fairly and almost completely unresponsive to my messages outside of communication with our realtor and private lender.

Confirm residential history and communicated with the current landlord/manager?

I provide to the insurance agent the breakdown in this instance $185,000 (purchase) and $40,000 (renovations).How should I best communicate to the insurance agent how much property insurance that I want (and communicate it in such a way that they he/she clearly understands)?

Another method would be to talk to your tax person And attorneys, and let them know what you're looking for.

But then it was a nightmare of communication, we soon realized that we had to do a bunch of songs and dances to convince them to sponsor our deal, it took 4 or 5 days for them to make time to sit down with us only to tell us that we needed to schedule another meeting in another 4 or 5 days to get Tyler on the phone and let us try and convince them to sponsor us and by that time someone else was awarded the deal and we lost out.

I have pretty good communication with the potential buyer, besides being a landlord in the immediate area, he has been a family acquaintance for years.

QUESTION #4: HOW OFTEN DO YOU COMMUNICATE WITH INVESTORS AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

Don't forget to use the Enemy Method for things that AirDNA can't tell you!

Strategy is to continue to using the BRRR method, but I am doing it using my VA benefits which allow me to purchase for zero down no PMI.