Definitely start by documenting everything—emails, city notices, all of it.

Ponying up $500 that they'll get back in 14 days may seem more attractive -- but, I'd still consider this one a toss up.However, in my "sleeps 14" ski condo INSURANCE is definitely the way to go. 

Would definitely recommend reaching out to Bernie Cesareo or David Stokley.

So I would definitely lean toward BRRRR between the two options although BRRRR is difficult in this market.For the large majority of those starting out, I recommend house hacking although I don't know if that would work for you in your situation.

Definitely a starting place.

If you can capitalize on those early returns and recycle into another property with similar early trajectory, you will end with much more money over the same period of time.Of course, being able to harvest those gains and recycle in a tax deferred manner helps even more, so you may want to seek out syndicators that are able to offer 1031 exchanges on exit, which is definitely possible.

you definitely want to see rental history. i had a lot of immigrants that are great tenants that are better then someone born here with a silver spoon.

It has taken us almost three and a half years to get to this point and most of that was the one year seasoning period from the lender and working with them to get the required documents for the county recorder.I'll definitely check them out.

There's definitely great flip opportunities here and as you can see that Knoxville prices have risen tremendously over the past few years.

One more thing to consider is getting professional photos for the MTR, can definitely help increase bookings IMO