Are looking to Buy & Hold, Flip or raise goats?

As far as improvements go, as long as it is functional, safe, and clean you should be good to go.  At

Good reason to have reserves to cover lost rent if the housing market and the job market go at the same time.

If it's your first go at it, finding someone to partner with may be the way to go. 

The bank is letting the property go at a loss.  

For them , sure a property manager can do the whole process and get paid handsomely for it like the hedge fund guys on Wall Street do, junk fees and all.But what concerns me more is the dumbing down of the otherwise keen investor who wants to have a go at it and actually LEARN real estate. 

I think that doing the wholesale deal is the right way to go at this point just want to make sure its at a great price for me and the investor. 

I hope to apply the lessons learned to my next go at it.Jacqueline I am also still affiliated with William Raveis (as a referral agent, of course). 

He seemed straight forward and said I can work for them as a bird dog or go at it myself.

I anticipate it will go at some point, and now that I'm in there doing work I am considering just throwing a new one in to decrease my chance of getting called on it later (and dealing with an emergent situation at higher cost and inconvenience).Thoughts?