I feel that I already have an edge against the cookie cutter agent.

I work primarily in Marion County, so I am of course more comfortable with Oklawaha, Lake Weir, Summerfield and Belleview.There are still some deals that can be found around the outskirts of the Villages and you will never lack for tenants and/or buyers.I would stay within a 15-25 minute drive of the school, (in any direction) look for 3/2/2 cookie cutter homes.

Your payments on the combined rig will be way less I'm sure than your rent in the trendy neighborhood and if your work is 100% remote then why tie yourself down immediately?

This entire scenario is pretty much the cookie cutter example of most deals that I see.

But, best practices are concepts, not cookie cutter formulas.

As landlords, we have to throw away our cookie cutters!

Yes, we have used this strategy 3 other times and all 3 times the appraisal and refinance have went as planned.Two of them were 3 families in New Britain and 1  of them was a 2-family in Plainville.Those were cookie cutter multi-families though, but we deemed the potential cash flow from this property to be worth the educated risk of the potential appraisal issue on the back end.  

Btw the rig active count in the US now is better than in 2020, but still much less than in 2014, there're still a lot of rigs that can be activated.What the US gov and Fed must do is sell those treasury and use the money short the oil futures :)

I believe it will be key to fast tracking this rig!

For example, I know that a new kitchen which includes gutting existing, new cabinets, new granite, new stainless appliances will be around $7k for me on a standard cookie cutter home in CA.