I'm in northern Knoxville but I'm good to meet up anywhere, I know @Bryan L. mentioned Smokey Mountain Brewery as a possible place.

I welcome anything you can bring to the table!

Hello BP,I currently have a deal on the table that I need advice onIts a 3 family home in a great part of NYCThe owner is selling it to me for 1.2mm ( due to family unrest) , the value of the home is 2.1mmThe units rent for1 bed - $25002 bed- $30003 bed/2bath - $3400How do I approach a hard money lender/private lenders to raise cash?

I'm always looking for deals so I'll be your first "partner" if you can bring something to the table.

Should make it easy to run a pivot table at year end and complete Schedule E.

My current co-workers have mostly moved here from SF, NYC, or D.C. where they paid crazy high rents and buying a house wasn't even a thought.With or without jobs in-hand great tech talent is flooding here due to lifestyle choices (many techies like myself love the mountains).

It really depends on your time table.

Bankrate.com has a calculator and amortization table for this.

What you may be best off doing is offering to partner with an experienced investor, with you bringing some knowledge, while they're bringing experience to the table, and offer a slice of the pie (typically the bigger piece, or 50/50 since you are a newbie) and they'll bite, as they're not yielding time, possibly money, but rather their wisdom and experience alone!

A few words I live by, it’s not a good deal unless everyone at the table is making money.