Ideally, this strategy is efficient for selling to investors.

Ideally, this strategy is efficient for selling to investors.

Ideally, I'd like to get bids before I place an offer in order to have a good handle on the rehab costs and place my offer accordingly, but on the other side of the coin, I could potentially place offers on many different properties before having one accepted, all the while I'm getting bids from contractors for which the job for them doesn't materialize.Or, do I visit the properties myself and with my agent, make an very rough estimate of rehab costs, make an offer based on the estimate, and then bring contractors in for bids *after* getting the property under contract, then potentially renegotiate the offer price if the bids come in higher than estimated?

My ideal plan is to obtain hard money loan to purchase and rehab both the properties, flip one of them to repay the lender and keep one to hold as I plan on house hacking and leasing to other tenants.

There are well reasoned articles by attorneys around the United States which explain that the ideal scenario would be to have a local attorney walk through your particular business plan to determine your best course of action and to draft what you need.

Once you have an amazingly effective marketing message on the postcard paper... now you need to get that postcard in front of the ideal prospects who  you can best help.

Army and working on getting to my dream job; ideally I'd like to work because I like my job and not because I have to.

The side by side family arrangement seemed ideal and truthfully from looking at the place it seemed like this situation would probably continue on indefinitely!

I am on Upwork however I would ideally like to work for investors.Any advice would be great!

My general approach/plan is to find a pre-foreclosure home that I can pick up below market and rent out, ideally to the tenant currently in the house.