Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

This added demand for rentals drives up rents.You must invest in a city with significant and sustained population growth to achieve rent growth that outpaces inflation.

Regarding insurance adding additional umbrella insurance is great idea. 

I just added solar to the project this year.

Assuming property taxes + insurance added don't go above $1,100 total, you could maybe make this work. 

On buy-and holds we usually replace all the plumbing with pex, no matter what, because galvanized has a life expectation of about 60 years, so I usually take the sooner than later approach.Stick with hard money, like Mach1 or or MKE hard money (Scott Lurie) as they will not leand on a deal that does not pencil out, so you have the added benefit of someone experienced looking over your numbers.

I sent you an email so I could be added to your group!

Just another few miles added on to my weekly odometer.But I made it just in time.

Note that Sec8 comes with added costs & issues due to bureaucracy and state of the HUD departments in the area.

@Allen Duan Thank you very much for your response and the added note about using it successfully.