For developers & investors in North America, there is a new route to market leveraging on proactive product based offsite construction solution.

You either have personal knowledge or boots on the ground so you won't be throwing a dart at a place you know nothing about outside of a spreadsheet.

They are expensive $200 each but they do not break down and you can track who uses codes so a family could each have their own code per person.

I know the owner of Strawberry PM personally, and she sounds good, but I've never actually worked with her.Start by going to www.narpm.org to search their directory of managers.

Once you have those personal experiences from managing your own property, you will be able to identify and vet these property management companies when they're trying to make excuses of whatever the reason is as it stops you from achieving your objective. 

I’ve flipped in the dc area for years, right now there is just money & in the vast majority of cases there is high likelihood of losing money, right now the best investments in the area imo are buy & hold, I’ve even gone full circle and while I really liked value add for most of the last decade I think in a lot of ways new construction especially in more affordable markets (I’m personally a big fan of the eastern shore market) is a much better way to make money long term than flipping and brrring while I know they are sexy & certainly you getting a huge paycheck is great, there just isn’t any money in it right now, especially in nova. 

I think it's better for for sale product not rentals personally.

Work with the city and local brokers to identify the exact product type to meet the housing needs of the area.

When that person said that, we realized how much power we had to negotiate terms that helped us reach our goals.You can't just take what's being offered when you negotiate.

If you don’t meet criteria for 2nd FHA, maybe look for a conventional product as there are many more options available than there used to be.