It’s a great reminder to trust your own due diligence and not let others make critical decisions for you, like hiring a property manager.For future investments, building a trusted team and maintaining direct oversight is key, even with remote deals.

The later is critical to protect your investment.

Keeping contemporaneous records is critical.

This is critical for protecting yourself, your property, and your neighborhood.Here’s why:Safety Concerns:Skipping checks could allow someone with a serious criminal history—like a sex offender or violent felon—into your property.

That’s a critical distinction because our industry is so much about trust, empathy, and truly connecting with a seller.

Detroit is very much a block-by-block city, so having local knowledge is absolutely critical.

Tailor these amounts to the significance of the task; for example:Roofer: $1,000/day (critical to weatherproof the site).Painter or garage door installer: $100–$200/day.Contract Value & Payment Terms:Agreed payment amount (lump sum or itemized costs).Breakdown of payment terms:Deposits.Progress draws.Retainage (if applicable).Scope of Work:Be as detailed as possible.

This will give you one critical piece of information, that it may take X days to get an offer and sell, and the second item will give you what your competition is right now.

We used our own cash we had no private investors.The other critical part was that we negotiated a 3 year wind down if our bank did not renew this was critical in 09 it allowed for a semi organized wind down that most of us in the HML space were doing in 09 to 2011 with all of our defaulted loans..

they perform a service and are compensated.not trying to be critical, just trying to protect you as you get started.