If you have no revolving debt you need to add a credit card or two, but if you have a few adding more probably won't help your score alot other than by lowering your utilization, the total percentage of available credit being used.

Mike, Turning one property into a loser to buy another that will have a positive cash flow doesn't make any sense yes, but keeping in mind that an investors goal is to grow their portfolio, The equity base in one piece of property (the 200k ARV) could in fact give him the power to leverage more properties that have higher individual NOI's, utilizing that properties equity base makes it a winner, not a loser.

Another question is whether you pay any of the utilities.

I think what may be missing from public records, title companies and such are APIs developers can utilize to build the mash up.

Most of the time some or all of the utilities will be shut off, which eliminates half of the inspection right there.

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If you do so, the collected rent plus collected utilities, less actual utilities due, will be delivered to youa.

Neighborhood is not great but definitely not a combat zone, Housing rate is about 950 for a 3 bedroom with separate utilities.

Every local wholesaler I know utilizes bandit signs.

I don't think Andrew is utilizing real estate brokerage in his wholesale deals.