Can anyone offer tried and true tips for securing a good contracting team for a small-scale investor?

Very supportive of investors using this tool, potentially for a few house hacks in the next few years.Someone selling a property with an Assumable mortgage will probably know to market that assumable mortgage as a feature, if they have a good agent at least, and this will help them increase their pool of buyers.I am worried that people are confusing themselves with this idea of "paying over market" - no.

Some quick tips I recommend.First 2-3 auctions...go to watch and observe. 

Open to loans but only if we net 10k a month after mortgage payments With 2 million dollars you could solely fund one of our ground up development deals at 15% down on a 50,000 sq ft building which we put about 70 units in on non recourse debt for land we already have locked up and entitled. don't buy and hold, don't listen to any of the 20 agents from columbus here who try to sell deals that are garbage. if buy and hold was the answer you'd see massive capital pools in columbus buying deals up. that was the model in 2014. all of the value creation is from ground up development partnerships. we can build with land cost below 65% of finished asset value on lease up and you can have no risk into the deal. the deal I'm talking about is a 12 story deal that we are working on. in columbus you can get downtown land for $400k that is about 0.22 acres right now with unlimited height and unlimited floor area ratios and build massive equity from joint partnerships.

If anyone has tips on finding good deals, financing options, or navigating the challenges of flipping and renting properties, I'd love to hear from you.Looking forward to connecting with all of you and building a supportive network as we grow and succeed together in this exciting industry!

Quote from @Jonathan Bock: They can be fun but also time wasters as well I have only personally bought off auction.com Jonathan - do you have any tips on how to get started?

Do you have any tips on that?

This is like me saying I am not yet a millionaire but I am sure I will become one...or I have not yet ran the Boston Marathon but I am sure I can finish it...One tip I picked up a while ago from people that have actually achieved what I want to achieve is that if you have not done it then you do not know it.

I greatly appreciate your tips.

We are shut down for a bit as we complete a pool construction project but expect to continue with the one we tried, and probably the other one too.