that is going to make it tougher to get a return that justifies using the funds on an investment. 

I get it but over time, you are going to have to understand that no matter what you do, eventually you will have an azz that wants to give you a low rating.

It's not a sound way of doing business, especially if you hire some random VA to call for you in an area they know nothing about.Agents should always be building their sphere and creating warm inbound marketing from social media, events, and meetups instead of doing spray and pray.

If you have a focused plan and prepared questions you can learn a lot in an hour. 

Have you set up an account in BiggerPockets? 

@Matt Smith generally speaking it’s a combination of rising interest rates which have caused cap rates to increase (thus wiping out equity), debt is resetting at higher rates, rising opex costs due to inflation and stagnant or softening of rents due to an increase of supply.

Hire an interior designer.💡 How do you keep rehab costs under control and avoid surprise expenses?

That makes me an expert to my friends and a novice in this group. 

Getting a contractor who is not hell bent on ripping off an out of state investor 

For example, the brokerage I'm helping at is specifically an urgent care brokerage, they do 90% of their deals in brokerage/development of urgent cares.