Hi Dylan - I am also new to RE investing but have a lot of background in building a solid financial base.

If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.Here’s our OPINION for the Metro Detroit market (always verify each area for yourself!)

They might be more open to unique property types and willing to take on loans that don't conform to the standard criteria of larger financial institutions.

I am currently using the FIRE strategy to become financially independent.

At this point i believe I will be the financial part of the deal, I will handle the DP and the mortgage/HML, he would handle the build (his fee is about 40K) and he has a rental management company as well, and they charge 25% management fee.Just for reference, I am a 60-year-old woman.

Understand your financial capacity to invest in a property and estimate your monthly expenses accurately.Kansas City is rapidly growing- lots of employment opportunities and housing demand.

It's free to create an accountAttom Property Data is something my old office used and paid for and was pretty great resource for foreclosures and lispendences.Usually county courthouses will display property data on their websites or you can see it posted there in person ( Free)Property Shark is paid but pretty useful up here in NYC as well.Free is always nice and as someone who's been privileged enough to used the paid services I would add that if you can afford it, pay for a service for a month or so.

These are big enough to make financial sense but aren’t out of my price range while I continue to grow.

Think of this for what it should be, flipping your "cash".Third, as your cash increases, take some (NOT ALL) of it and invest in cash flow,...the rest keep flipping, repeating steps 1 and 2,...and then 3 again, until you reach your financial goals.REI isn't a series of one time events, it's a system of continuous steps, all leading to a specific financial end result.

Thank you,Matt MortgageNewsDaily.com is a very good resource for daily tracking of conventional rates and they also have good content explaining the reasoning behind the moves (MBS, treasuries, etc.)DSCR Loans a little harder as its going to be a range and based more on deal specifics, I'd check youtube, etc - also would generally track the 5-year treasury yield and add about 3% to get a general daily ballpark