If you are going to purchase SF homes in lower barrier  C/D neighborhoods be conservative with your debt, set aside plenty of reserves and consider half if not more of your appraised equity to be the result of a generous appraiser because you will likely never see the equity converted to a realized gain. 

I recommend working with an investor-friendly agent who focuses on cold-outreach methods like cold-calling, cold-texting, etc to bring you off-market deals.

The 2 family was +3k so that helped off set.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not set because I believe it will give me a higher return.

I would want to be able to cash flow those expenses or have a pile of cash set aside as a Rental Property Emergency Fund.  

I have already taken many steps to set this up as a business but am looking to purchase my first property in the next 30 days or less.Glad to be here and look forward to meeting you all.

Everyone knows how hard it is to convince someone through cold-calling that you aren't wasting their time.

We don't discriminate against the source of income - it's illegal but we can choose to work with these tenants or not.There is extra inspection every year, there are other inconveniences.If it's a protected class in their city or county - you can't mention in your add but you can set up your criteria, for example, amount if income.I have 3-4 rents income requirement depending on the credit.

It is possible to set up the final end financing before you start building. 

Secondly VRBO does not auto charge tax so I set it to collect 10%.