It is a show of faith that you WILL go through with buying the property yes?

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

A key lesson here is buying at the right price; overpaying by $15K can make a big difference.

I'm a property manager, and I also buy/sell property.

In solar sales (door to door) the setters typically make about this same range.Most companies in the house flipping world seem to buy lists online or run basic skip traces of areas and send lists to VAs to setup calls with the owner of the company.   

When I have to buy material from Home Depot for my rentals.

Before you think you're getting in for zero down, have you asked what kind of cash reserves you have to have to qualify for the loan such as X number of months rent, and X number of months taxes, and what about insurance are they going to require you to buy one years of insurance or something.

Quote from @Henry Clark: I old look at buying your lumber early.  

If you really hustle and are smarter than the average bear, you may make enough money that you can buy an investment property.

Most of the legit investors I know won't buy those deals out of principle, regardless of terms.