@James Cloman as you are finding out, the percentage of credit utilization is important to your credit score.

Better to give up a percentage of what could be a good deal than hold 100% of a bad deal.

What you have to do is save up a certain percentage of rent as reserves each month so that you have money to fix large repairs in the future.This should help you: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/08/0...

I'd rather do more deals by using partners, than fewer deals without since I would then be required to fund all the cash and qualify for all the loans. use lease options,Love em...but again, this can only be used for a smaller percentage of deals.maybe assumptions. 

Here in southern California we have had a large percentage of homes purchased by foreign investors in the past years.

Accordingly, I only spend a small percentage of my year working as an agent v. attorney; however, I do have several clients and deals.

The criteria is... time on market since listed, a percentage to discount by (not a dollar amount), and how many bids are being received.That creates a number called "minimum acceptable to HUD"... 

Maybe your mentor will finance the deal for you and take a percentage to mentor you???

There are plenty of resources on BP and elsewhere to show what comparable nearby properties SOLD for recently.Another semi-helpful way is to work backwards from what percentage rental return you would be expecting for any deal you might consider, by only looking at properties that meet that criteria.Next question: how do I calculate the percentage rental returns when I don't know what they will be?

I'd recommend doing a Google search first "first name last name town" I'd say a large percentage of my returned mail is a deceased person.