To the nuts and bolt question of what defines occupancy, it is the place you reside and spend the majority of your time/nights.

I'm not opposed to spending the money and have a demo scheduled with them this week, but was curious if anybody else has other data providers that they like better for more niche areas of distress such as bankruptcy, probate, divorce, code violations etc. that I can stack with my current data.I have submitted right-to-know requests with the local counties but only certain information is available and can be cumbersome.

In the end, it would have made more sense to hire a couple handymen for a week or two than me spending 3 weeks installing flooring, base and case.

Most who make $500k don't have nearly enough dry powder on the sideline to scale a real estate business quickly enough without making huge personal sacrifices for an extended period of time.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Even if a software is free or cheap, it's the time investment getting things set up and then tweaking it for the first few months that is the real "spend".

@Colin Ford Spend a good amount of time building your team in Florida.

This means you wouldn’t need to spend time managing properties or building a team, which is perfect given your time constraints.

That depends - if its a short term hard money loan possibly, but expect to pay more for it.I would first ask your current lender if you can extend the loan.

We also had the option of another type of policy that was even less expensive that would have required us to spend at least 1 night in the house and rent it at least 30 nights each year.