Would love your best, hot tips for setting up and making the most of your Baselane account! 

An insider tip, I suggest to NOT start with seeking agent's, start by seeking Real Estate Brokers.

No tenant-made upgrades allowed, unless they're professional quality.

How do you typically fund your renovation projects—any tips to share with other investors?

Owning two less expensive homes for long-term rentals offers diversification and stable cash flow, but may also generate lower monthly cash flow and property quality issues.

That's the category of lender you want to avoid falling into.This is a roundabout way of saying if you can show real value to your borrowers by understanding their business you will attract the best quality borrowers with the best collateral and can charge a premium for your services because they are the borrowers who understand what's most important in a lending relationship and its not solely the rate or origination fees.

As far as the quality of advice at a bigbox store - it is highly variable.

I started off as an out of state investor myself and would be happy to share some experiences & tips. 

Prime rental market, good quality tenants because of higher asking rent Lessons learned?

I am 36, own a very successful Air BNB at a local ski hill, and am in the process of looking into the best way to get involved in my father's 54 unit rental property business.