Your best bet is to find a name-brand brokerage and hire one of their newer agents, someone who has the support in place and is hungry for business.Any decent loan officer should be able to turn out a new pre-approval letter within an hour any day of the weak; use a local lender if you can.As far as cash out of pocket, there are currently a lot of good conventional loan products out there that only require 5% down, which isn't a heck of a lot more than 3.5%.

With a brand new law degree, you can probably get good financing terms.

On one hand, if I only upgrade the flooring when the current tenant moves out and then do the kitchen later on when the replacement tenant moves out, then I can market the property each time with brand new X when I'm looking for a tenant.But, if I only do one upgrade at a time, I'm afraid that the tenants will not be impressed and regard it as half-finished.

I'm also including my logo in all my marketing to build brand awareness and build trust.2) The best lists that I'm sending to are DFD, Tax Liens and some other small niche lists.

My relator told me about some land in Raymore area (for those of you familiar with Kansas City) where a builder will build brand new duplexes for $229K. 

If I were to join a branded national franchise/company, I would have to follow their rules and work under their guidance, while needing to dedicate additional time to their programs and trainings.

Amazing. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/style/the-brookl...http://www.wsj.com/articles/brooklyn-the-brand-141...http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/broo...

We decided to put in 2 brand new furnaces and hot water heaters as apart of the rehab and since we already had gas coming into the house we are making the 2nd floor natural gas heat as well. 

Since my market is extremely hot, I am trying to come up with different people to hit with direct mail, people that are not on everyone's radar. I came up with a list of people who last bought the home in or before 19...

If you've created a memorable "brand" for yourself, those prospects will remember you after you've touched them about 7 times (see The Rule of 7 - video)."