If you have no previous flipping experience, most lenders will naturally request a higher interest rate, higher fees and lower LTVs.

Naturally your market will drive home prices.

Currently there is one oil tank supplying fuel to two oil furnaces and I'm looking to convert it to two separate natural gas furnaces.There are already two separate gas meters running to the property, and each unit has a gas range and a gas water heater, so I believe the lines running to the property could handle two new high efficiency gas furnaces and tankless water heaters.Anyone have a good contractor in the Boston area who you'd recommend to do the work? 

It isn't a natural gift.

For example, a hard money lender backs out at the last minute and never funds the deal so it never closes, or you do a final walk through and aren't satisfied with the condition of the house and back out, or there's a natural disaster right before closing that destroys the house, or any number of things that prevent you from ever owning the house after you sign the paperwork.  

Outside of the boots on the ground team that include a property management branch/ in-house PM operation obviously another secret ingredient in being able to provide to one’s out of state investors is the art of being able to max out the section 8 rent and have the government pay 100% of it!

An LLC is a flow-through entity, so your income there will naturally show up on your personal taxes. 

There is a natural progression that happens as you go through this industry.

Fear is actually a natural element that helps to keep us from harming ourselves.

Why not charge for utility bills as those could become liens as well in some areas...Sorry to say, there are too many people who are simply preditory in nature and truly believe that getting over on the next guy is good business, that's why, IMO, we got hit with so many regulations, because most people can't control themselves to do the right thing.They have the Geneva Convention to set rules for war too, most investors wouldn't survive if we had no regulations at all, they would be eaten up imo.