On the Buy side as far as an investor I never used the lease option to tie up a property.

You could also bring on a business partner that specializes in sales/marketing to lead that side of the business

If so, I would like to apply my expertise in Data analysis as part of my side hustle project.Please suggest. 

I do plan to live in the vacant side at least for a year, with a VA loan after a year I can take out a loan on another property.

On the other side, it is also possible that they have found the property they want to exchange into or already have it under contract. 

I also side with Adam and take advantage of the added protection of the firm I use.

I used to have one many years ago and it never got very hot.

Others might be fine with taking risk, but least by doing this a person can get an idea of what might go wrong.e) Legal document analysis: it will usually take a few days to go through the legal document properly, as almost inevitably there are tons of gotchas that either have to be explained, or mitigated with a side letter.That is the very short summary of what I do.

You can afford to pay a bit more if rates cool down.We need to also remember that BRRRR become a really hot topic in a low interest environment.

Dillon,I have purchased properties in Nashua, Manchester and on the MA side.