They are RE investors that tap the banking system for financing.Here's what I've read in terms of landlord responsibility:In NY the residential landlord has no duty to mitigate its damages and may recover the full value of remaining payments owed under the lease for the entire lease term even if the landlord makes no attempt whatsoever to offset, minimize, or cover its losses.Looking for some advise. 

Hi @Alonzo Smiley,If you are trying to find distressed apartment buildings without using brokers whatsoever then it can be difficult. 

I'm still in the researching phase but I'm going to get my first property under contract in 2019.I'm cash flow oriented & primarily looking for a property to cut my teeth on for my first deal.

Lenders, accountants, attorney, and brokers in the market you're interested in.If you have any track record whatsoever someone and probably quite a few people have heard of you.

We can fire during the rehab, so we're bitting our teeth until they are done.

A lot of people cut their teeth on house hacks and single families etc and grow till they have a war chest to make bold moves. 

You wouldn't go to a dentist with false teeth or a barber who shaves his head so don't work with professionals who don't have invest in real estate.

This is a big shift in thinking for those of us who cut our investment teeth house hacking. 

Perhaps it is because I live in the heart of a city where students cut their teeth on hacks but your birthdate code habits scare the living bejesus out of me!

Having done 75 buy-sell deals 2003 thru 2010 and subsequently losing my entire portfolio 2008 thru 2013, I've been clawing my way back from a position of no cash whatsoever and remain deeply entrenched in the 'turnaround' via being a painting contractor, flipping the odd house here and there, and as an agent with Keller Williams (focused mostly on higher-end mountain properties).