This way, you’re not going all-in on a new roof before you need to, but you’re also avoiding costly water damage that could eat into the savings.In other words, patch it up, keep it durable, and wait to replace only when there’s no life left in it—Tonka style!

I can feel that push internally, too—getting out there and connecting with people one-on-one is really my style.

Are they picking window style and placement, exterior cladding, color, etc? 

I believe these posts are influenced by the pay for education syndication model.

I'm in the process of researching information and talking to people in FB groups who are actually succeeding in the shared housing model of investing.

The style is not on the current trends and attractive for a home that's priced 3-4x the average home in the area (nothing high end about it). 

You’ll check if their work is good, if they look like they know what they’re doing, if they have a late-model pickup truck—things that indicate they are competent and professional.When a motivated seller does a Google search, they’re no different.

While the arbitrage model didn’t work out as I’d hoped, it turned out to be a valuable learning experience.

I would start looking at what type of properties you're going to acquire and where and then start backing into what they might cash flow and cost and where that money is going to come from. 10 year back of the napkin model/ assumptions1 unit at $60k is $18k down payment at 70% LTV and lets just assume it cash flows $100/month no matter what for easy math.

It's a sucky business model.