My plan is to manage the property myself (I currently manage a 100 home affordable housing community).How would someone such as myself begin the process of structing a deal such as this, finding the right team to value the asset, negotiate, finding lenders, etc - especially in a city where I know no one - and putting down as little as possible (preferrably no money down - is that even doable)?

Real estate has always been a strong interest next to that of health and wellness.

If you used the bank that  have the REO for your financing it might not work in your favor when you make an offer because they already know how much you qualify for or how much you can afford so they might not negotiate. 

Hello everyone,I was hoping some members could direct me in the way of finding a reliable affordable General Contractor in the metro MA area.  

There is no way they could afford to pay for these materials again!  

So we ended up buying a few of the family’s properties and hired C to continue to manage them all.C was a teacher who wanted to do real estate full time, since we could not replace his teaching salary with PM fees at this point we agreed that we would try to ramp up during the school year so that by the following spring we could afford to replace his salary.

Yes, I realize that a decent tort attorney is going to be able to pierce your LLC and get to your personal assets in the event of some egregious negligence on your part related to these properties, but there is still a modicum of protection afforded to you with them in an LLC that is not afforded to you when they are titled to you as an individual.My other suggestion would be to talk to a CPA and a decent Business Attorney or Estate Planning Attorney (or both Attorney's) and determine based on your overall individual picture which is the very best way to hold your REI portfolio moving forward. 

Don't give up, the bank is not human - they are machines - they don' care, they have no emotions, there is no one to negotiate with, they go home at 4pm, they can afford to keep the property until it falls apart.........GET AGGRESSIVE!

Couldn't afford to pay contractors, had to learn and do it myself.

NO agent in their right mind would give this out.. they could lose thier RE licensee plus in our market its a 20k fine.RE license is basically easy to get if you can't study and pass the test then you have bigger issues.. and if you can't afford the 1k or so a year to maintain it .. then this is probably not the industry for that person as well.Poor advice to have someone just give out their MLS code