I plan on going to the next REI meeting here in arizona.

How does on go about figuring out rehab loans or private loans for property without a house?

I personally budget $50/month/unit for maintenance, sometimes it high and sometimes its low but I think that for ongoing maintenance its a fair number for budget purposes. 

I’ve been planning on going to one of those soon.

LOL, so the latest in my ongoing Appfolio saga.

You can locate that in your place depending if you can close it off and not be distracted while you are there.I could keep on going but this has gotten long enough.  

The rents have doubled so it no longer is cash neutral (but even though this property has done great, it is one of our worst on-going producers (we did extract over $100K but I am including the $100K in the equation for one of our worse producers)).Your issue, and the issue of many newbies, is that you likely are going to need to purchase near retail at a high LTV. 

Eventually, this ongoing dynamic monitoring became an administrative burden. 

The non-refundable cancellation policy is not worth both the extra ongoing cost and the fact that I never knew how much would be charged for payment processing. 

Ongoing property management is the toughest part about turning around a block....think about what type of tenant a bad block attracts....as a landlord/PM you can control only everything within your property lines and not items exterior to that.