How do you know when they are working slowly (especially if you're new) and how do you speed them up without pissing them off? 

It still will take underwriting around a week once they receive it but it helps to speed it up.  

When you have an actual deal, the package will look very familiar to your potential investors and you are speeding up the process.2.

So I am able to get a lot higher returns on my money because I am putting deals together and I spend hours and hours a week looking for deals, looking for investors, teaching investors our system, managing expenses and cash flow, working with our contractors and title company and our assistants to coordinate the management of our properties.If you want to speed up the process then you will need to be more of an active investor than a passive investor.

Hi I need to have a POA (my father in Reston VA) set up, ahead of time  being proactive to give wet signature to purchase of any property I buy, for purpose of speed efficiency for closeThe buyer is me, out of country (Singapore, u.s. citizen, buyer is LLc using my own and hard money,Purchase is Jacksonville FLNo contract yet.. being proactive..I'd like to give him POA for purchase of real estate as my LLC, for x amount of time.Do you think a title company will give me a general power of attorney form that I can Give POA to my father while I am out of country, without specific purchase address?

We will evaluate their business both before and after the purchase of real estate: For years, the Speed Shop provided a nice living for its owner.

Speed - With a checkbook IRA/ LLC this is less important, but for the initial set up of the account and LLC and funding the LLC is a multi-step process.

I am still getting up to speed on everything, so most likely I am going to pass on this unless this is a home run deal.Notes:Listed at 50k and for this purpose, I am assuming I can get the price down to $40k20k repairs: From the pictures, it seems like everything is in good shape and just needs some touch-up.$80k ARV: based on what other properties are selling for on Zillow after filtering for similar sq footage and bedrooms1k rent: Seems like a fair conservative rate Property tax: pulled from the county's websiteVacancy/repairs/property manager - Are these amounts standard?

Getting an exemption from rent control takes an act of GodEmptying bldg out via Ellis to make a TIC play is much harder nowadays; was more doable pre 2010Long term play; someone with $$$ puts 40% down, collects their 4-6% return, waits out the tenants, while neighborhood gentrified as wellBuy outs are also an interesting option, if the tenant is game, and speeds up the process

Also, finding a mentor will speed up your learning curve quite drastically.