My areas tied to the business will be real estate, stock market and crypto investments.

I am no longer living in the property, so a conventional refinance was one of my only options (FHA streamline would not work since I no longer owner occupy).ORIGINAL NUMBERS:Purchase Price: $175,000 Monthly rent: $2150Rate: 4.25% plus 0.85% for PMI (5.1% total)Monthly PITI+FHA PMI: $1375Expense estimates: $560 (details below)Capital expenditures (roof, HVAC, etc) @ 8%: $172Maintenance (repairs, leaks, etc) @ 5%: $108Vacancy @ 5%: $108Property Mgmt @ 8%: $172all utilities, trash, lawn care, and snow removal are tenant responsibilities. 

I find the process very streamlined and it has helped us save a lot of time and money through the years.

I'd love to find an independent PM/CM to work with and I've even debated putting a PM on staff to streamline things.

. #1 - The streamline 203k no longer exists.

Plus, an advertising company will have all the processes and relationships in place already to streamline approval and construction.

Man, a lot of younger people went berserk over crypto.

I'm love investing in general, I've been trading crypto for about 3 years now very profitable but real estate as always been on the back of my mind I want to get into for rental properties.

@Garrett Stockton many have tried, and more more are trying to use software to streamline and replace/supplement people in the process.All sounds good on parper - then you have to deal with lazy & tech-UNsavvy tenants and owners who want everything spoonfed to them.

.#5 Build Out Your Database in a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.#6 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalk through distressed fixer-upper properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.This will help you get acquainted with common rehab repairs, rehab costs & estimating terminology.#7 Get Your First Rehab Project!