Close with asking permission to informally inspect the property to see if you can make your vision work.

Not sure if you’re closer to Randolph, Lackland or Ft Sam Houston but this also plays into account on what rental amount you should look to achieve.

These experiences highlighted the need for thorough inspections and budgeting for contingencies when tackling older properties.

Again, I love Rods show... but after inspecting his program from the outside looking in over the years I must say that it does work.

Will there be more issues come about at an inspection?

When you say professional quote do you recommend just paying a trusted contractor to do a walkthrough or do you first recommend getting an inspection to figure out what’s fully wrong/needs to get fixed before bringing in a contractor?

. • Inspection/Contingency Fund: Since you’ve dealt with flat roofs, you know the importance of inspections.

We finish a bathroom we can request an inspection, they come in inspect we get paid say 25%. 

It’s a reminder that no matter how thorough the inspection, surprises are inevitable.Seller financing is a great focus too—definitely seems like a powerful tool to make deals more manageable, especially on the cash flow side.

They remain whatever the original borrower has.When you use typical financing from a lender, you have the lender's hoops to jump through and loan origination fees, the appraisal has to come in at a certain number, oftentimes an inspection or appraisal will kill a deal.