I highly recommend a well-qualified REALTOR who works with investors and knows how to help you best.7.

Ran into many problems with contractors along the way, paid for some material twice as well as some projects to be redone.

I highly recommend a well-qualified REALTOR who works with investors and knows how to help you best.7.

thanks for your time and help rent to retirement works directly with build to rent developers like us around the country once they are framed up. you are buying properties pretty much at market value but with a hand holding. you can work directly with a builder or directly with them. they are just an intermediary. they take 5% on what we make as a builder but have a large list of investors and a systemized approach to selling new builds. if you want to get a better deal I'd recommend directly contacting builders and building it yourself. fly to the market. spend 2 days, tour new builds, get a feeling for how it's going. if your builder isn't building multiple at a time then I wouldn't recommend working with them. rent to retirement is a well oiled and well run machine. they've had their ups and downs with dozens of transactions in florida but modified their process. they are well known and established and transparent. if you have a more specific market and feel confident in your ability to vet deals try it out. happy to talk more my info is in my signature. we work directly with them to sell new builds and no organization is perfect but I have good things to say about them as a builder and potential build to rent developer that sells build to rent triplexes and single family homes through them to end buyers in California like the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego 

He is a wealth of knowledge on the area and is actively investing locally as well.

Nathan Roberts also on this site may have some suggestions as well. 

I hope you are doing well and sounds like you are an experience investor in this market - would love to maybe grab coffee sometime and hear about the experiences you have gain over that last 15 years!

They don't communicate well, don't take responsibility for their actions, do not clean or maintain homes well, and will shaft you when it's time to leave.Other than that, it's a pretty good system.

A well-structured deal with a clear exit strategy can be just as valuable as a full rehab.

As Shawn mentioned above insurance is going to be a HUGE deal in Gainesville as well as HOA's.