It’s hard to really get good at it without doing a lot of deals because the licensing course doesn’t teach you much about actually being an agent, that comes from doing lots of deals and learning by doing it every day.

But if you lay out your plan to the owner over the phone, it's very hard to get a "yes" because trust is developed with a face to face meeting.Trust can be established by talking about your past record (as an investor) but also if you have something positive about yourself (profession - real estate agent, nurse, teacher, fireman, doctor - any profession that can give you some added credentials).#4 Owner vs.

I post my rental listings on FurnishedFinder and Facebook (there's a couple DU living fb groups) and have had a good experience with hardly any vacancies. 

I’m finding a hard time finding comps for a long term rental.

I know, I know…it’s hard to find, but I’m looking to BRRRR in the area.

I wrote many of these on the hood of my car.. press hard.. hand the buyer his copy  one copy went to title company one we kept and one went to seller if it was not us ( which was rare actually).. 

How do you become a broker for hard money lending? 

I'm not saying this because of what I currently do but what I've learned is when starting to flip or rent out many properties it would behoove you work work with private money or hard and not residential mortgage companies for investment properties at first.

Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: one  way i know to replace 350k a year with 750k is to build new construction and sell it.we pretty much double our money COC with new builds within 12 months.So you pay cash for the lot  get a construction loan and the hard part is going to be a GC you know and trust.. sell the house double your cash on cash or better.. pay your tax and keep going.Or invest with a developer and do value add by creating building lots those are easy to 2X or better more risk though.

So you need to check with the zoning department about non-owner occupied and how hard it is to get the variance.