I'm open to making it my first rental if that makes sense, but my preference would be to just part with it and get my money back.

Hey guys,I have a few real estate investing books...but I was wondering if anyone could recommend a book that specifically deals with not "investing" buy more about a newbie buying a used single-family home and the steps involved from start to finish (preferably talking about the FHA loan process as well)...thanks!

I'm also unsure if I should use a 203k loan to finance the rehab, I'd prefer to do the bulk of the work myself and bringing in trades when needed and then refinance to get cash out when we're ready to purchase the next MFH, so I could see there being more savings if I self finance the renos through one of my 0% apr credit cards or just pay cash. 

I'm in need of a real estate agent in the OKC area preferably someone who owns and or manages multifamily units.

I'm looking at flipping but I'm also interested in single family homes; preferably a duplex.  

Do you prefer them?

Personaly, i prefer an in class setting.

I would prefer to ultimately build the business around extracting maximum rent from higher maintenance tenants, and less rent from low maintenance tenants within the same buildings.At this stage, say I have 2 tenants that started renting at $1000 on a 12 month lease.  

check http://austin.narpm.orgI'm a PM (not taking new accounts) and can say that most PMs I know would prefer a lease renewal and turnover avoidance over the leasing fee.

On top of that I prefer to only leverage 15 years which makes it even tougher.