You bring up an excellent point about the trade-offs between second home and investment property loans.

It's a fine line and we have easily a dozen other contractors who would give us excellent references about payment. 

An excellent multifamily trainer with much credibility in the market is @Gino Barbaro of Jake and Gino.

I then created an excel sheet with those estimates to know (a) what to offer for land to make my numbers and (b) to hold the sub to what they estimated for me.  

The good news is that these properties can indeed be purchased for various investment strategies, including rentals, BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance Repeat), or fix-and-flip projects.Purchasing as a Rental or for BRRRR:You can acquire a Freddie Mac home to hold as a rental property or implement the BRRRR strategy.

My wife and I recently have started our journey into Real Estate Investing. We have had a few walk through and done property analysis on several properties, but are not really cognizant of what we are getting into. We...

You've become part of an excellent platform for networking and education!

.- CPA just wants a pdf or excel SS for P&L, BalanceSheet, GL - so could use whatever I want, in theory.- bank integration (download transactions) a must- no employees, so don't need payroll- if it'll bill that's awesome.

It’s great to have you here, and it sounds like you’re in an excellent position to start your real estate investing journey.

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