Identify your goals and work back from there.  

Hello family, If your investing in the Missouri can you help me with identifying the better places to invest and the returns you are getting in those markets?

My goals are buy and hold rental properties and identifying that first deal.

Next research your specific strategy (house hack, BRRRR, etc) and then identify needed team members to help you reach that goal.  

I mean, I was in dental school for 4 years before they turned me loose on the general public ;-)  My thinking is that getting experience showing homes, learning the sales process and all the associated components, learning how to identify value, etc would be extremely valuable in the face of stiff competition. 

There are definitely some tools out there that can help you to better identify what the rent prices are in your hyper-local rent market.

A good identifier is $300k gross sales are proven here by a prior businesses. 

My agent says the only risk is that if the appraisal comes back with issues, we would have to fix them in order close the deal, which would mean the seller would have to allow us to make any identified repairs.

My agent says the only risk is that if the appraisal comes back with issues, we would have to fix them in order close the deal, which would mean the seller would have to allow us to make any identified repairs.

I do have a question - How long has it taken any of you who have purchased a multi-family - from identifying through closing, and fixing any repairs etc, to 80-90% rented?