There is waaay more competition on much fewer properties than a few years ago.

Freddie Mac unveiled a new financing option this week that will allow consumers to purchase a home and finance renovations all with one loan.The CHOICERenovation mortgage is meant to address the “need for more efficient ways to finance home improvements to solve for today’s aging housing stock,” according to the agency.

Fortunately copper theft isn't as bad as it was a few years ago (economy is better now so fewer people needing to do that kind of stuff), but you do still run the risk of it getting stolen if the whole house is left vacant.

Maybe this is more a vent session but being a new investor I'm shocked that Pro Formas are as misleading as they are.I'm dealing with sellers who are selling to investors but their Pro Formas are written as if they were selling to consumers.

In order to extract everything from this book, you need to take notes, there are so many different strategies, and bits of connected information its hard to consume it all at once.

When I'm interested in something I throw myself into it fully and I am reading/listening/consuming everything I can about real estate at the moment.I'm looking at my first major investment as a possible turnkey property but am open to other ideas.

I too have been in creatives ....designing for entertainment/consumer products (for Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, Mattel, Hasbro, etc. ) since my early 20’s.  

sfvrsn=4https://ago.mo.gov/civil-division/consumer/landlord-tenant-lawOnce you have read through everything you can find, use BP as a resource to bounce questions off other experienced professionals. 

This will help to avoid a timing problem with leasing the home after closing because fewer people are looking.                                         

Lack of knowledge even though I've been consuming as much content as possible lately.2.