Track all of the expenses and income on your projects in report form that you can view regularly with other people you trust to help reducing your expenses and increase your income.  

One other idea, that might show the tenant you're as concerned as he/she is, is to put up a fairly cheap surveillance system to monitor and entrance where the packages might be dropped off during the day.  

if you are going to do just a regular FHA loan and you have good credit i would go to wells fargo they have some pretty good deals. 

If I had bottomless pockets I would go that rout to grow to my goal of $8,000 a month in cash flow over the next 10 years. )If I am understanding you correctly Scott what I should do is just buy from sellers like you from like the Bigger Pockets Marketplace and then just do the things I would do with real estate if I found it here... find property management, monitor property management... work *** off for next down payment on next deal... lather, rinse repeat until I have the cash flow I want.Is that right? 

Anita Gee I'm sure this happens on a regular basis, so don't feel bad.

I could get miitary friends to check on the property regularly but they couldn't be there for long stretches.

Tucson meetups come and go but often don't receive a lot of traction regarding regular attendees.

Fixing a leak or doing your regular day job is no different.

Why don't you think you can qualify for regular financing?

So they don't care if they pay a little extra for it as long as it's cheaper than buying a fully renovated house in the area.2) Other potential investors you are competing with especially some of the bigger ones I have sold to in the past have CASH and their own crews or ones that they use regularly and have a long standing relationship with and therefore can reno at a lower cost than the rest of us at fair market value.Sending your agent those figures is nice, but she doesn't care if you're going through listing agent.