If you have any recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it and would be happy to help you in any way that I can in return.All the best!

My strategy is to gain 30 units as quickly as i can in able to replace my current income.

Analyze as many potential properties as you can in your market and you will get a good feel for what a good deal looks like. 

Unfortunately, small local community banks are a dying breed... 

Im living in Beijing, China, and I am able to save a lot of money here that I want to invest into rental properties, and since Im soooooo far away Im following the ideas of David Green, about the long distant investing, I picked up Indianapolis as a city and a region where I want to invest and I have found a local agent and a property manager , so they can , in a way, control each other, in a sense that I will have two separate source of information, because I will not be able to be there and I need to choose the right property, especially because this is my first one and Im still learning about all of this.

It is also common that a LOI is not binding.You CAN, in a lot of cases, use the local Realtor board boiler plate contract and add an addendum that clarifies or adjusts the verbiage.  

Last year I had a client who was a startup in Home Automation space, which set my spider-senses tingling into the Real Estate industry, which set a course where now I'm running the marketing department for a high-end real estate firm here in the DFW area.I'm here because I love to learn as much as I can in order to become excellent in my space.

I am certainly willing to offer anything I can in return.

I have worked with a TON of those guys in NE Ohio,. they are a different breed, LOL

In order to maximize forced appreciation, do I:rehab as quick as I can, (in less than 60 days) and try to refi hoping the appraisers use comps PRE-Harvey ordo I rehab and wait it out a year+ before refinancing so that all the homes are rehabbed and values go back to where they were before the storm.