My weekly podcasts will also help you get a better feel of our market and then might help you learn our market quicker and with more data. 

I'm sure I could go to some midwest markets or even some more depressed markets in my region and get better pricing, but that's out of my wheelhouse at this point in my life as I have no desire to learn new markets when I'm closer to the end than the beginning. .Sure, obvious but over looked.

Quote from @Jinxiang Xu: New to being a landlord, and already forked out $20k for foundation repair on this rental house.

Basically, the more you ask for relief as a percentage of the total, the harder it will be.You will need to show a hardship that you did not create.

Are you set on starting with a larger property, or would you be open to beginning with something smaller to build experience?

I'm looking forward to learn and connect with all of you already in the game. - JeffWelcome to BiggerPockets!

First, and i don't know why nobody else is catching this, you MUST go directly to your broker, sit down and discuss all this with them. 

You should to talk to @Andrew Postell He is the best mortgage guy for this.

Curious to learn more about it.

The first thing I ask is why am I Buying the property.I always look at the exit strategy first, is it going to be a rental, a lease option sell, am I planning on living in it.