Hope all goes well for you and I hope you would be willing to share some tips with me with your experience on this project. 

Kysha had a great tip about FHA using 75% of market rents for additional units to help calculate borrowing capacity.

I look forward to contributing to this awesome site!

I just put out of request for proposals/quotes for a build through a site called BuildZoom.

@Christopher Phillips if anyone is going on a vacation, it's me - def not sending my water heater :DThanks for the tip I will look into this for my unit.

@Bart Hedgcock At the firm I work for we simply take 2 people on site with a laser and a tape measure.

As well as any tips on getting financed for your first income property.

I have my listing on Airbnb but I would like to list it on many more and manage them (Expedia, booking, VRBO, etc.) with a single mailbox. Any suggestion on what service to use?

It looks like Cleveland water has some rate info on their site and it looks like garfield heights is on the higher end of their breakdown.

Guru wants to charge me $5k for acquiring the property (bidding)Guru wants to charge me $10k for managing the rehab and using he software to find the golden nugget properties)Plus the auction site charges a 10% buyers premium which I would also paySo overall guru wants $15k each ($30K for both buy/holds) to buy and manage the rehab remotely.