Their job is to keep investor capital allocated and returning, so there's only a deal if they can actually redeploy the capital into something better.As a buyer, you need to establish a lot of credibility for a deal this size.

If that's not an option, you're looking at a minimum of 15% down for a single family investment property.If you haven't been working, you'll want to wait until you have a 2-year employment history UNLESS the job you have after college ties into what you're going to college for. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

The junk removal company started the job but stopped when they noticed bedbugs on mattresses.

With a budget of $300K-$400K, you could potentially find single-family homes or small multi-units in those areas.I'd recommend researching rental demand near universities like Duke or NC State or even checking out neighborhoods with strong job growth near tech hubs.

We were trying to manage every minute of scheduling for the sub-contractors.

I do have a house that is 4:1, but it works due to peoples schedules and mostly male occupants.Padsplit manages the member acquisition and rent collection and I do the rest. 

Plus new folks do a very poor job of screening the buyer for Ability To Repay (ATR) which involves pulling full doc and calculating the borrowers DTI, honest income, honest debt payments, prior debt payment histor (FICO) etc etc.Plus shockingly (or shocking to sellers) if you bought this investment house, fixed it, then are selling with financing you are selling "inventory" and y9ou owe taxes on the gain in the year of sale, you are NOT able to use installment sale to spread out paying taxes. 

At the time, I had just graduated with a physics degree, landed a great job in the Bay Area, and was newly married.

Rental income and expenses, such as mortgage interest, property taxes, repairs, and depreciation, can be reported on Schedule E of your personal tax return, regardless of ownership structure.