networking with other wholesalers and craigslist changed everything for me i got a few more but those are carefully kept secrets!

now as far as writing off interest and these types of things - you'd have to talk to your CPA about tax advantages and disadvantages.if you wanted - it's up to you - you could send me a copy of your business plan (minus any personal info, trade secrets, etc.) just to review - i won't give you advice on anything - only my opinion.

When someone promises to show you the secrets take that as a signal to run n the other direction.

This however could be going back to the same thing Ryan said where you don't want to give up all your secrets but I feel that if you are consistently going to these REIA meetings, you'd have to be pretty stupid to screw over another investor there.

I like to be conservative so I'd recommend using the 143% rule that Brent mentions, worst case you over estimate your appraisal value you can still get your costs back even if your new value is only 133% of your costs instead of 143%.The secret to the actual BRRR strategy involves buying the property right and assessing the ARV accurately given the current momentum in your specific market. 

Since you're new to RE, I'll let you in on a little secret: turnkey providers are ripoffs and anyone who knows anything about RE investing will avoid turnkey providers like the plague.Objectively speaking, you're paying $220k for $2200/mo in rent and $4k/yr property tax.

I scour this site regularly to find the secret to how I'm going to get this done, and it continues to fall back on planning, research, an understanding from designers and contractors, and what they'll allow in the area.  

If you find the secret to finding good trades you let me know!

I've alctually helped the secret service and the FBI put some scammers away.

one of the main reason buyers must use an agent is because Texas is a nondisclosure stateIts a sketchy proposition to base your value solely on access to secret data.