If you don't sign the contract and hire that agent, then they legally shouldn't be working for you.

Spoke with the seller a few month prior to contracting.

She did not have that stipulation in our contract so I will not pay her this time. 

It'll be easier to start with a turn-key property, but if you have a good contracting team, a value add will typically offer better returns. 

OOS BRRRs are the devil's juice on this forum, but if you set yourself up properly with contracts, etc., you will come out on top just take a bit longer so you need to underwrite that in mind.If the former, I would do a combination of fixed income, private lending, and note buying and trade the arb.

Also when you are under contract and get condo docs, make sure to read the meeting minutes (for the past year if available) they will indicate if there are any talks of an upcoming special assessment (which you don't want).

This also leads owners to ASSUME simpler is better when it comes to management contracts.

What if the person staying at your place signed a contract but their 1st payment check bounced.

Quote from @Lamier Guzman: @Jaycee Greene I was thinking Hampton or Virginia Beach, leaning more into Hampton honestly for the duplex's but after my military contract and my 1 year of residing in the duplex is complete I plan on renting both units and moving to Florida or Texas to purchase SFH's and BRRRR them.

AND Its my contract the customer signs .