Again, we decided we could better spend our money on our own marketing, which has been outsourced.

Inspections are required when sold, (technically a different inspection - but it's the same cost and qualifies at the rental inspection, even done by a different person than the rental inspection [or was before they outsourced the inspections {more corruption - another story}}), before a new tenant moves in (never hold up a move in because of the inspection, not being done. as long as you have called in- that was the quote from the city council when they started this BS program), or every 2 years from the last inspection. 

Though I have been in real estate for over 20 years, I choose to outsource all of the heavy-lifting in real estate to experts.

Manage myself (Outsource mowing).6. 20% down, 30-year conventional loans.a. 3 properties under conventional loans through a broker.

Typically, when portfolio or fund managers are growing and they finally don’t have the time to manage the asset performance themselves, they will hire an outsourced asset manager to perform the work.

Following the guide of doing what you are good at and outsourcing the rest, I will do only work that I know I can achieve good & fast (80/20 principle).

So make sure you do your homework and understand the additional costs on top of the downpayment.You'll also want to ask yourself if you want to manage the property yourself, or if you want to outsource the management of the property too... you guessed it!

As you start to think about scaling this becomes hard to do and eventually you will grow to want to outsource most activities. 

I will add 14 days padding for mishaps = 30 days total For my 100% outsourcing flippers... 

You could do a live-in flip with a single family residence ... and learn to do some of the work yourself, and/or outsource the rest to a contractor.