Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.36.

The longer your history of completing successful projects, the stronger your deals, the better your plans and the better you get at executing your plans, the more exit strategies you master, and the more of your own funds you are willing to commit to your project, the more likely you will find a lender to partner with at favorable terms.

So while i dont have a tremendous amount of experience I can approach investors with a binder of historical data demonstrating success in managing townhomes in this area, and that my projected numbers are backed by historical numbers with similar properties.Second is relationships, the stronger the relationship the more comfortable someone will be investing with you.

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When they agree to paying a larger security deposit it shows they have a stronger financial position (vs. living paycheck to paycheck) and it provides them extra motivation to take care of my property. 

However, if I was to buy out of state... would it make more sense to at least be able to weed out a few markets and go to markets that have in general, better vacancy rates, more demand, appear to have stronger job growth, and potentially more favorable taxes, or even states that are more favorable to landlords....??

Our goals are to build a stronger team, to automate what can be automated and to expand across north Florida doing Rehabs, Wholesales and Buy and Holds.

The more options that you can present to someone seeking to take the property, the stronger your position.

Going a few more towns away, the prices are cheaper and the cash flows are stronger, however the equity gains aren't there. 

I'd probably put a stronger clause in a new agreements about keeping the visible aspects of the property in good shape and enforce that.