They have been going for a while and have strong participation."

First, how do I create a strong buyers list that I could keep using even after I leave the area?

If the building has open violations for more than a year then there is a strong change that they are on title, which means you can only buy with cash or 203k loans.  

I have a strong desire to start and have studied countless books, attended webinars, and listened to podcast after podcast. 

If we were to build, we would be self performing everything, no subs, all in-house employees (frankly, it's not that hard), financials might be a problem, it is not as strong to build a 1-2M project - gross receipts around 300-400k this year if I were to guess and 290k from march 2014-aug 2014 (our 2014 fiscal year), license and insurance is fine, experience??

Honestly though I am really intrigued about the idea of passive income and want to start investing as soon as possible but at the same time I am firm believer in building a strong base before I make major decisions.

I used their deposit to replace all the carpet and have the house professionally cleaned, at first everything was fine, its been about 2 months now, and the new tenet is complaining of  a really strong cat (probably Urine) smell in the master closet, an area we had the carpet replaced. it is a slab foundation, any cheap tricks to get it fixed, I honestly don't know what to do, I would have thought to hire cleaners or replace the carpet, but both have already been done.Thanks in advance for your help,Nick

Some homes now have very strong colors and some people really like that.... but some people really don't.

I earned my CPA after college.I currently work as a real estate financial analyst for a multi national private equity real estate firm, but have a strong interest in starting my own real estate investment practice.I am very impressed with the information available through the podcasts and forum posts.

@Luka Milicevic Account ClosedThank you all for of your strong responses.