. $150 labor and $100 for a brand new toilet all day long. 

Yes national brands manage it, but they typically charge 6% not 0.6% lol.

I'm in Austin and there is a online mattress showroom that I visited to try out different brands. 

I am wondering if my first steps (past the education part) is to build a network of people who know, like, and trust me through posting content like newsletters, articles, podcasts, doing webinars, going to events (aka build my brand), or, should I first find a deal and then raise capital?

These markets will offer you distressed properties starting at 60kish or so and up to 150kish.For example, let me make up a hypothetical deal.You buy a house for 90k and am putting 60k in to add. half bath, redo the kitchen and bathroom, brand new paint and new LVP flooring all throughout. 

I am brand new to real estate investing, and participating in Brandon Turner's First Deal program.

Quote from @Erik Estrada: If you are brand new and do not have much experience, having a GC license does help you get a higher LTV/LTC on hard money loans.  

Every once in a while, somebody will come on here usually brand new and say hello bigger pockets family.

Also the brand new AC unit put in by the seller was stolen before tenant moved in - thieves climbed a 7 foot fence.

Hello all,I am looking at building by brand and would like to see what the community uses for marketing of their properties.