it's all difficult, i think =) good thread.Would you call it difficult, or easy, to go pick out a target area this weekend.

Picking this one back up: Dallas has restricted most short term rentals except for in certain areas as of this past summer. 

Quote from @Luis Maza: Hi all, returning to the game this year and would like to pick your brain a bit, we started working with a wholesaler that will send us properties here and there with the "wholesale" price, but every time we check the properties and add the numbers, the margins are, well, I am not sure, too low perhaps, maybe we are getting to picky, but this is my dilemma for example...Today we got a property, wholesale price 300K, rehab about 50-60K, ARV is about 440k, but with the cost of hard money, we have about 100k cash, hard money interest at 11%, keeping the property for 90 days while we finish the rehab, closing costs,  commissions, we ended with 30k profit before taxes, while it sounds appealing, adding up all expenses and cost we ended up expending 50K on rehab(labor/materials) and about 50-60K with cost of the loan, interest, commissions, etc, everyone makes money, happy with that, but it seems that we are working to produce a 100k for everyone else, while we make 20-30k if everything goes well...In my opinion, we are not really getting "wholesale" price, it seems that we either buying to expensive, rehabs are much more than we would like to spend and the cost of borrowing that money is too high...We came up with thoughts as: lets fund it ourselves with money from a close friend/partner that we will bring in, and that would save us 10-15k here and there, but still, is that the norm now?

Otherwise, you should work with a mortgage broker who can shop hundreds of lenders for you to help pick the best lending partner for this transaction! 

I'm recommending apartments.com as my top starter pick because it is the only one I've found that is truly free to both the landlord and the tenant with no fees (monthly or transaction fees) !

So yes, more like a subject to where I am just picking up his payment.I have already househacked a rental I still hold, so worst-case scenario I would pull a line of credit or bring in an equity partner if more capital was needed. 

Pick up as many as you can and study their rates vs. their occupancy rate.

New construction homes are typically around 600k here and picked up maybe 25% in the same time.

San Antonio you better Pick up the pace.  

Once HGTV picked them up, "Fixer Upper" quickly became the channels #1 show and eventually became the fifth most popular show in all of television, worldwide.