There's a few different ways to focus on a lower rate such as with house hacking and making the investment your primary residence, requesting a significant closing credit from the sellers for standard rate buy-downs (which I've had great success with recently), or utilizing lenders who offer short term rate lowering solutions such as 2-1 rate buy downs (again, ideally paid for by the sellers).

Quote from @John Teachout: Title work is typically done as part of the pre-closing paperwork.

Originally posted by @Mike Lambert:@Jon Latorre$100k+ sounds nice but it's not the same return whether the property costs $2 million or $5 million.My question was what is the typical rental yield range?

how long does it typically take to make your first gator deal after joining the program?

This is typically for most people not a DIY project. 

PM fees typically run 8-10% of monthly rent for a duplex plus often a leasing fee of 50-100% of one month's rent when placing new tenants.

However, in my state utility shutoffs are not allowed in winter and that gets people confused sometimes. 4.

Just because the costs might be in the furture does not warrant not budgeting for those known expensesThen there is the misc costs of asset protection, bookkeeping, unexpected utilities (such as between tenants (tenant turn over) or failure not attributable to the tenant such as slab leak).  

However, the road block I face is getting to a point where I think it’s an “ok” deal (meaning it’s not fulfilling the 1% rule, but more like 0.75% and little to no immediate renovation cost/typically a new build townhome) and then I start to question whether I could find a BETTER deal if I just keep looking.

I know when you make an offer you typically specify how you plan on funding the deal.