I approached him with my interest in the topic and he shared some info and also asked if I may want to be a gap lender (or other avenue of lending) for some of his deals.I thought it all sounded good and am now preparing for my first deal with him.I am primarily concerned with my risk in this deal.

After a few months, we finally found a buyer, but I had to settle for less since I opted to sell the property as is to save on renovation costs.To give you some background, I initially purchased the property for $155k.

Will need more info on this.

So that brings up another point of having to do everything remote.Any advice or help at all would be greatly appreciated and anything you wish you would have know before getting started would be helpful info as well!

Start saving as much as you can.

I've almost hit 2 years job experience for a conventional loan, I have qualifying credit, I've made good contacts with realtors and lenders from my Admin Assistant job in the loan world, and I've saved up enough cash for 3.5% down for SoCal SFR pricing (not enough for closing cost or commissions yet).

Read the contract details, especially fees, eviction coverage, and maintenance info.

That being said, it might cost you a little more than subbing each trade out but you're likely to make up for that cost on the sale and the time you save by working within established relationships.If there are any major issues with the project you're looking to take on you'll want to take pictures if you can so you can send them in advance so any contractors can bring the necessary tools to assess the scope of work.Take a quick look at the materials you're going to need for the site either on Home Depot or Lowes or something similar so that you know roughly what the cost of materials is going to be.

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Keep all the units I currently own and just save up for each additional unit like I have done to build up what I currently own?