Greensboro: More of a smaller town feel.

Congratulations on your first purchase.

I know it would have helped me.Now that I am out from under these two properties I am waiting on a HELOC on my primary to get approved I will be getting right back on the horse but with much smaller rehabs.Below is the house that sold today.

I used a property manager (before I was one) for (1) time & headache savings and (2) the value the property managers provide by economies of scale (marketing, discounts with vendors, etc.).

As mentioned take a smaller cut to complete a deal if necessary.

If I was to purchase the property from her without realtors involved on either side how would I do so?  

How big do you want to scale or how many closed deals (or more importantly how much profit) are you trying to do per month?

You can look at an elevation map or ask for a previous survey on a property prior to purchase. 

You can really pick where you want to be on the "comfortability to profitability" scale here where I felt like those options in most markets were limited. 3) it's a great place to live all-around.

Most of the time I do the BRRRR strategy and I have scaled to 9 doors now, one of which I'm planning to flip.