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If NO basement, what is potential damage...proper extraction, sanitation, removal/drying of walls and trim, personal property, etc.

Hoping to get some meaningful guidance from pro investors on how I should go about maximizing what I have and build a portfolio. 

I don't mind spending time with an investor, but it needs to be meaningful. 

My proposal to lender was to credit 10k in closing costs / ppd insurance/taxes and credit an additional 5k to pm, but lender is pushing back indicating there are limits to seller credits - reading online it looks like the 4k credit might already be over the limit, so maybe that would've gotten twisted up before close as well.Anyone knowledgeable on this have any ideas how I can extract this value?

After having listened to BP and other REI podcasts for the past half year and reading various books, I can tell you that asking for 'tips' is too broad for people to give you any meaningful help.

How do you generate a meaningful surplus in your day to day life, so that each month, you save up $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, or more, in cash, after tax, that can be deployed towards your first or next investment? 

@Marcus Maloney One of the problems you can run into as a licensee who is wholesaling is that there is no meaningful distinction between wholesaling and a net listing.For the non-licensees reading this, a “net listing” is one where the seller says “I want $XXX,XXX.  

CAP rate isn't a meaningful metric if you are financing and it say's nothing about time value.

I agree with this.To the other part of your question – if there’s a meaningful gap (greater than 10%?)