As opposed if it were the final auction price they'd owe me $2400 (20% of 2000)?

I don't know why, but I never thought about what you mentioned about how people contact businesses as opposed to businesses contacting prospects. 

Do you have any thoughts or suggestions on conventional stick built as opposed to the manufactured multi family that's availble?

In a court case or two, I was asked by the opposing attorneys the question, "who filled out the forms and wrote the contracts".

As for my own market and the surrounding areas, I'm in one of those areas where the best I'm going to do is $500 monthly negative cash flow as opposed to $1,000 monthly negative cash flow.

I wouldn't say I'm opposed to a corporate gig in real estate, I would love for my current full time job to complement my real estate ventures and expose me to experience in real estate deal flow at higher levels for sure.

Here in SC we have a ton of programs for downpayment assistance and even lower interest rates- I would consider taking advantage of something like that as opposed to renting here.

Whatever you can do to increase your savings or increase your income: cut out unnecessary expenses, work a side job, put money into a HYSA as opposed to a regular savings account earning 0.1% interest.

@Mike Barone I've been using batchleads for a little as well, but what I can't figure out is if there's a way to pull fresh property data, as opposed to having to use something like propstream to keep exporting/importing between systems.

Putting down 35% down as opposed to 15% will skew your ROI significantly, all other financials being equal.