That is more time consuming but it can be amazing if you get lucky/have the time to dedicate to it. 

I am learning that we need to step away from doing the work ourselves as it is just consuming too much of our time so we did actually hire plumbers for the new bathroom as well as professional tile guy and it was nice to eliminate that burden so we are looking forward to hiring even more on the next flip where necessary.

Someone posted in mortgage forum that Chase added a 1.25% price hit to 2nd homes today (for any consumers - price hit  means 1.25% added discount points for the same interest rate). 

The principal / consumer is not protected in an  agency contract.   

The research it’s time and cost consuming,and a lot of property’s can be redeem , right before the auction.If you pay for a title search on so many properties ,that cost can go up really fast.I’m trying to find a different way other then a title search or county records (like an online website )more cost effective and time efficient to do those investigations.Any suggestions are much appreciated

ACH regulations give the consumer an option to dispute fraudulent charges and reverse payment.

Evictions are costly, time consuming and stressful.

Even simple rehabs, like painting are time consuming and can be draining.

The fact that you have an income generating property, no "consumer debt" like credit cards or car loans, no student debt (I'm assuming) and you have an income, this should qualify your for conventional financing.

We were just action oriented and even if we lost money, we treated these units as a mini pension, so when we pay off in next 20 years, it’ll just pay us a steady flow of income vs. us wasting money on consumer stuff since we are natural spenders.