Cost of labor and marterils have gone up a bit in the last three years.

Three years ago my insurance company demanded that I get a licensed electrician inspection

Hi, We are three friends from greater NYC area looking to invest out of state in PA.

What if you picked up the other one or two properties without refinancing the first, fix and rent them out too, then bring your portfolio of properties to a lender and ask for a single commercial loan on all three together?

You're going to have three to twenty people who each do things a different way, and will be willing to teach you the things they think you need to know.

The property currently has three structures; a run down old barn previously used as a business, a two family rental that is currently occupied, and another two family rental that was destroyed by previous tenants and has not been occupied in years.

The trouble is that many of the same lenders I have used over the years are all maxed, I have even made calls to more "emotionally expensive" sources (EX. the types that call you to let you know that they have concerns about shingle color on the house they lent on and think it should be changed, two to three times a month) and even most of those are tapped. 

Purchase price: $427,000 Cash invested: $2,000 Purchased a move-in ready three flat utilizing the VA loan (zero percent down).

The fact that they didn't can be explained by one of three reasons:They are liars and bad persons in generalThey are incompetentThey are misinformedAll of the aboveI decided that they are just misinformed because all other options are extremely bad.

Regardless of how you find them, try to interview at least three managers1.