First, develop a good relationship the "business banker" most banks have a dedicated person.

If you lived in your primary residence for the last 2 years of 5 years, you're eligible to sell it and pay no taxes on the first $250K for a single person or $500K for a married couple.

Lessons learned?

Lucie, and Palm Coast; however, I am also very interested in learning and exploring opportunities in additional markets.

I am not used it myself and understand there is a bit of a learning curve .

Lessons learned?

Just to really drive the point home on how easy most of these owners are to find if you're using a true quality skip trace service, feel free to message me and I'll personally run a couple for you and send you full reports on the owners and possibly the owners' relatives if I see anything that makes me think you should be contacting relatives.  

On investment homes, I have learned that it matters less about how cute they are and more about the numbers. 

I'm looking forward to learning more on this platform.  

You just have to learn to train your tenants to pay on time whatever method you choose.