I'm an investor and property manager who is extremely knowledgeable about the Garland area.

Establishing a relationship with a few of them locally or nationally [if you have a network] would be extremely beneficial.

I use to mentor newbies at an extremely low fee.

I'm not an expert, however, I am extremely experienced and if I dont have the answer I know where to find it!

Its extremely important when running tighter margins like what you're talking about to focus on age of HVAC, water heater, appliances, roof, etc.

When I started, I used a $64K HELOC, and today, I’ve grown it into a $3,000,000+ portfolio.That being said, BE EXTREMELY PICKY with your first property.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

Keeping investor money safe in this environment requires extreme amounts of investigation. 

The other extreme is you could be your own GC and price out the various trades you need and coordinate the schedules. 

This can be extremely costly.We have a two step program has no waiting period at all and will end up being quite a bit cheaper then the 3 month waiting period on closing costs, rate and NO pre-payment penalty.