@Philip Beckwith many times, but have also lost a few times.You pick your battles.

We would have preferred to work with them within reason to make it a quicker and easier process.

The best strategy I seem to have deployed so far was to contact all my current tenants and let them know I’d give them a cash referral fee of $250 for anyone they recommend to me that goes through the vetting process and successfully moves in.

If the state matters, I'm interested in Connecticut90% of our clients is OOS investors and our business process is tailor-made for them.

If nothing else that is a strong reason for us to always seek external leverage. 3) Time - things can really drag out with the planning process!

The following is the thought process on a house we looked at in Italy over Xmas.  

- Weekday activities: What time do you wake up? 

@Luke H.Hi Luke,  As a private money lender myself I will focus on one element of your deal---5 years is a long time to be finally paid. 

I've done my projects solo so far and it has worked out for me, however, it is time consuming and not in the position to invest all into one deal.

They do this on purpose so new people get tripped up in the process and quit.