He won (I ran him up quite a bit) and it turned out he was a scammer. 

I ran some numbers and as far as cash flow goes, it comes out to less than a 4% return.

People worry about prices going up, which they should, but you can also get quite a bit more house with those low rates.As an example, I ran some numbers on a $450,000, 3br/2ba home in our market.

This is where I ran into additional issues with this particular tenant - his only response after a day of serving the w-9 request was 'I need to make sure I know what I'm signing.' 

When you look at the credit report, is the score low because of things that are on going or poor decisions in the past? 

Purchase price: $180,000 Cash invested: $80,000 Sale price: $350,000 Contributors: Ley Nezifort NOTE- this is an ongoing rehab in Point Breeze, Philadelphia.

I plan on going long-distance from unit 1 which makes me a bit nervous.I'll be reading both those David Greene books very soon.

If the odor is not properly mitigated that will cause ongoing problems.

Anybody have some light renovation ideas for the common areas in a on-going duplex BRRR right now?

Second, and perhaps the guiding light here:  these companies make their money from loan origination, not the ongoing servicing of the loan.