So any way you can improve operations (raising rents, reducing vacancies and expenses) will have a compounding effect on how your business is valued (code for forcing equity), allowing you to potentially refinance and get cash out of the property to use toward future acquisitions.Tenant experience. 

You’d have to have the money seasoned in you bank account (in there for more than 60 days), the loan would also effect your DTI, I agree with the poster above, gift of equity from family member is much easier.

also. in a market like Austin Texas where its a really strong market. does it have much of an effect?

However, if the tenant sues for any violation of the RLTO, section (e) goes on to state that the "well-known company" remains:"jointly and severally liable with the successor landlord to the tenant for such security deposit or prepaid rent, unless and until such transferor transfers said security deposit or prepaid rent to the successor landlord and provides notice, in writing, to the tenant of such transfer of said security deposit or prepaid rent, specifying the name, business address and business telephone number of the successor landlord or his agent within ten days of said transfer."

the address caught my attention as I live in Coeur d’Alene.  

Interview multiple agencies, it's way too labor intensive to do effectively from afar.

You need a iron clad agreement where every possible issue is addressed in writing.

I target a good amount of probates as well, but did not purchase this list from ListSource.I have been receiving calls, as well as a decent amount of mailers returned due to incorrect address/name. 

We have one more deal to do that will effectively wipe out all our business debt and start us on a new round of low-interest bank financing.Yesterday, going through the forums, I stumbled on a jerk who obviously enjoys putting people down, telling them they "have no clue," insisting they have no business doing what they're doing.

You want to use postcards first since they are cheaper and some may bounce so you can remove the bad ones off your list and skip-trace those so you do not waste money mailing to bad addresses.