I don’t remember the other name that we switched to but they were the other major player.

finding leases is very competitive now w/ larger, VC backed players in the game and pushing a lot of new supply onto the market through taking over huge buildings.4) There's a lot of up-front cost if youre doing it right, since the market is gotten more competitive, you need to stand out. 

Ask the flooring company to put you on the payroll..Ask for advice from competent people before making a life decision like quitting a W2 job for a IC position.or Ask a friend of family member to purchase the house and you rent it from them for PITI plus 15% then after 1-2 years buy it from them.

As a layperson, you are not:"No individual, other than a member, in good standing, of the bar of this commonwealth shall practice law, or, by word, sign, letter, advertisement or otherwise, hold himself out as authorized, entitled, competent, qualified or able to practice law; provided, that a member of the bar, in good standing, of any other state may appear, by permission of the court, as attorney or counselor, in any case pending therein, if such other state grants like privileges to members of the bar, in good standing, of this commonwealth." 

If you were competing with me on that property, you would not even consider it because its cap rate at that time was not double digit.

I use Gary Compton by default but either of them are very competent and affordable.

Lots of players in the game right now. 

You’ll be competing with investors for these properties.

Well bubbles... if you were competing against me.. you would never ever win.You would be going up against a scientist, NASA robotics ninja with publications (= CREDIBILITY), a #-1 ranking website  flipped 25937567 houses a month with pictures of progress to show for it.What do you have?

This is a great conventional product, competing with FHA's low down payment option, but unfortunately Freddie Mac will be doing away with the no income restricted area's very soon.