My wife works for Ferguson, and I know many contractors, so I can get a lot of materials at cost.

I'm looking for referrals for a custodian, tax attorney, and a CPA to set one up and advise me.

Look into crime maps, and do the old fashioned thing of getting in a car and driving the market if it's not in your back yard.

Yes, there are many out there that do it and nothing bad has ever happened, and I say kudos to that, I just would never do that.

I am from Ohio and will be down in Atlanta from 1/9/24-1/12/24 and was hoping to network with some real estate investors for lunch or a coffee (or at a project you might be working on).

How many bedrooms does it have and what do you think it'll rent for?

Stop focusing on problems and focus on opportunities and solutions.

Evaluate the situation to see if you could have done anything differently to mitigate the loss and implement changes to your processes, but know that this happens and hoepfully just not too close together. 

When you say you want to prioritize cash flow over equity, you want to watch out for people honing in on that and selling you "good cash flow" deals which will be in D neighborhoods and will come with high capital expenditures and harder tenancies.

I'd be looking at multiple structures. we try to build below the average new build cost in our market in Columbus Ohio which is 515,000 last year and we target land 40-50k and urban core adjacent where we get higher price per square foot. we build for clients with margin around $190 a sq ft depending on multi or single. we can get that down in our triplex it's a little higher on our single family homes because of garages and limited economies of scale. hope that helps. idk Philly but if you show me the area and styles of homes I can give you some more insights.