However, you're inexperienced as a Landlord and willing to keep a bad tenant for six years, so I don't know if keeping a fully renovated home would be wise.

But unlike the BP Community the Investors in this area come across as a very insular group (except for a few) whose Offer's to help the newbies are really nothing more but invitations to bring them in on any deals you may be to inexperienced to do on your own.

You will be communicating the with closing attorney or title company more closely than an inexperienced homeowner.  

For someone inexperienced with websites and looking for their first off-market deal, do you recommend putting money into SEO?

I don't think I would have an issue getting a partner to bring some capital to the table; I have never reached out to a HML, though, so any advice on a good HML for a (relatively) inexperienced investor would be great.

No one is throwing money at newbies unless they are naive and inexperienced themselves. 

You’re too young and inexperienced to know what you don’t know.

Usually, investors need to find a gullible and inexperienced agent fresh out of school to do this. 

By avoiding the many pitfalls including the estimates of inexperienced or unscrupulous GC bids, we can help newbies hone in on safer, more profitable deals.  

In retrospect...if that seller could have done things differently, do you think they would have hired someone like me, or the inexperienced agent?