Hello everyoneI invest outside of the US, working in Indianapolis, focusing on Flip.Looking for a method How do I know great contractors who focus on Flip, who have experience in the clip, who are timely, budgeted, honest, reliable.How do I manage to locate such contractors?

Forget commercial.170k down is not enough to own a quality NNN asset outright.

Best price for the quality of work he does.

All of them are pretty similar in regards to price point, tenant quality & rental yield etc.....

There are a few properties that come and go, primarily duplex and triplex properties of not great quality in not great areas that fit the bill, otherwise the mainstay seems to be something like: 3 Bed 2 Bath home, 900-1200sq ft, built in 1930s, needs some work, 120-160k.

as a newbie and who also wants to own my own properties before the end of 2018 I would like to know what your action steps/ method you used to get your feet wet in real estate and what did you learn ?

I'm in a cheaper market, but I use the HELOC method. 

I am also a licensed real estate broker with Nottingham Realty Group and I have had a lot of success helping investors (both local and out-of-state) buy investment properties, repair them, and either lease them to quality tenants (BRRRR) or sell them as a flip (BRSR).

The realtor must have just figured out Snapchat filters judging by the quality. 

Tough to make out exactly what he was saying.To see what he’d say, I offered to have my attorney set up an escrow account (at no cost to him) to hold the $5600 for us and to help us complete the transaction, to which he responded that would mean he would not have the funds then available to pay for the due diligence activities, and that would not be fair to him.Suffice to say, when he outright declined to do business using legitimate methods, I knew for sure this guy was a scammer.