The maintenance company might even work with short-term rentals and offer after hours service that your renters can call directly.  

Either that resident agent service went out of business or the company owner stopped paying them to be the resident agent.

We only lightly sanded/roughed surface of cabinets after a thorough cleaning and time to dry, then we primed with a water base heavy duty primer (we used 1-2-3) and got Enamel Sherwin Williams paint (like $100+ gal). 

I'm based in Miami, and interested in building new construction

Some mentees will act as a bloodhound for the mentor, knocking on doors, driving for dollars, scouring the internet, making cold calls, or performing other services that help the mentor find new deals.

Shawn - I would suggest you develop a pro forma based on the stabilized state of the property to understand if it cash flows once all units are occupied being sure to include all reasonable revenue assumptions (rents, vacancy factor, etc..) as well as expenses (debt payments, maintenance, utilities, property management, taxes, insurance, turnover costs, etc..)

As an investor, leveraging OPM (other people's money) is something that I’m used to and based on my current situation it made sense.

Carlos - Not sure what size multifamily property you're buying, but I recently used Hemlane (national broker) for a quadraplex and was very happy with their service.

You would get an initial advance that is based on the current as-is value + the money to rehab the house in the form of draws.

Yes, %'s based on offer price to sales price & NOT net to HUD.