Do the 3rd party negotiating companies have contacts at the bank that they've closed plenty of deals with which helps them get a better approval rather than the file just "going through the system" and landing on a random lender negotiator's desk?

If you take a step back and look at your system, you'll see that your opportunity at the stage you are connecting the dots are for pre-probates.A pre-probate, as I define it, is a property owned by a deceased person for which no probate has been filed (yet).

Electrical system – Water did not seem to hit the outlets.

If they are gutted the city or county might require adding sprinkler system and other items that delay rehab and drive up costs.Your main issue is selling a turn key investment.

The tax system is very complicated and, things that the government would do for you in for example Sweden, you will have to do yourself here.

Heading back to ohio middle of next week, we are starting two more crews when I get back.I have a couple hundred questions to ask here over the next couple weeks as I develop and implement the systems that will allow us to ramp things up a couple notches.

Of course at the end she was selling her coaching system, but I did learn a great deal and the website has a ton of info.One of my greatest learning tools are RSS feeds.

For example, what's the remaining life of the plumbing, roofing, mechanical systems?

I do not work on duplexes, tri's and quads but larger 5 units and above.So it might help to mention what you are trying to do.There is a different set of brokers that work on the larger properties versus residential agents that pick up a duplex or tri-plex here or there that sell houses.

I bought a duplex for 13k and put 8k into it in heating system and remodel of attic to turn one of the apts to a 2 bedroom apt.