The wholesale deals can be very lean and the MLS deals are very competitive.

I am leaning towards vacation rentals.

Then in the future as investors move into larger projects they tend to lean more towards commercial financing. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.I am leaning toward BRRRRing this deal although I initialy wanted to take the money and run :)What do you think?

If you run really lean you can hum along at 26-28% using remote management strategies but I personally would still use the 30-35% to be safe. 

I'm trying to see if this is a smart option or should I lean more towards using a bank.

With short study/research, I was actually leaning toward a class C neighborhood but your suggestion is changing my perspective... probably I should forget about cash flow and look at some quality neighborhood because I have ZERO experience with tenants and I do not want to get exhausted by a lot of hassles with tenants in the class C neighborhood..  

I agree that PayPal or others is much more convenient however I am not going to have renters tell me that they want to pay me in amazon gift cards.

I am leaning towards a house hacking situation in a college town.

He'd essentially be providing up front cash, his name on the mortgage, and an opinion on execution.I'm leaning towards suggesting either a 60/40 or 70/30 split on the up front cash, which would essentially mean that he's paying between a $4,800-9,600 premium for me doing the work.