It depends on what market, but big trends or large employers moving to area or adding plants, colleges adding programs etc.

I am hoping that I can scale up sufficiently where a bank or a lender (private or commercial) is willing to look at us for financing and hopefully refinancing the whole portfolio or give us financing where we can start purchasing in with methods so we have more options on the table given that seller finance deals are hard to come by some times.  

My name is Jeff Morys and I am looking to learn to use the BRRRR method haha.My goal is to buy a duplex, live in one side, rehab and rent the other half.

My PM checks credit, verifies income and employment, and checks previous landlord references.

But what method landed you that first deal?

If a buyer uses a “subject to” method to structure a deal, can they bring on a investor to help fund rehabbing etc. ?

It is also much easier to qualify as an RE professional if the person striving to be an RE professional does does not have other full time employment. https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2010/08/04/basics-of-real-estate-professional-status-tax-irs/If we do two units of rehab in a year (each rehab likely takes a few hundred hours as the hours add up fast), then the wife qualifies fairly easy as an RE professional when combined with her usual RE duties.  

I really don't know the answer.as a kid I worked with them a bunch IE employed them but in those days they spent the night at the Y and would pass out door hangers for ciggee and beer and MD 20 20

BRRRR method.

I cannot add to the account at this point, it was a rollover from a previous employer.