As with any electronic item they can fail, so I keep an extra new lock on site at each property for maintenance to install if needed. 

Here’s why lease options are a game-changer:🔹 Low Risk, High Leverage – Instead of buying a property outright, you lease it with the option to purchase later.

This is very common, and highly successful.

I always recommend it as a good place to start.

You basically have high growth and low cash flow Columbus OR decent growth and solid cash flow of Cleveland, Dayton, and Cincinnati. 

I flip with cash, not loans, mainly because there are not enough deals out there that meet my highly selective acquisition criteria, so no need to pay interest on cash otherwise sitting in a money market account. 

I recommend you include some of your key qualification criteria in the advertisement.

First, I recommend you understand the market.

BP should have a list of recommended options!

Maybe an investor is flipping a lot of properties and you could offer to pick up and deliver materials to his crews, clean the work sites every night, bring his crew lunch, or whatever.Find a way to make yourself useful to them, and they will reciprocate.