To your point about having money left for renovations, you can put as little as 5% down on a conventional, but how that's affected by the investment status is decided by the individual lender.Then you have "investment" loans, which will most likely all require around 20% down, ours requires at least 20% with excellent credit.

Clint has also done a bunch of podcasts and videos on their asset  protection and tax strategies.

Just the content of his videos.

On the flipside i think it would be a excellent time to buy GE stock it's the cheapest its been in years and the companies probably not going anywhere soon.

Excellent post Lee.

Post-car mailers to neighbors. 6% doesn't get you video walk-through, or drone video, doesn't get you food at the open house, certainly if you need more than one open house...

I would definitely recommend the following: The Richest Man in Babylon (very easy read)Rich Dad, Poor DadAnything you can find by Jim Rohn (there are videos on Youtube as well)That should get him started!

There's a lot of great advice here on this thread.My partner and I made a list of many cities in the US and made an excel sheet to track metrics like population growth, job growth, affordability, Fortune 500 companies in the city, demographics, and other factors.

To be more specific, is there a site or program that I can upload an excel document with leads listed that would return phone numbers for those leads, or something along those lines?

It's an excellent resource.https://www.memphisinvestorsgroup.com/content.aspx?