Your earn it in this business and once you have some years in and your getting your business by referral like she does it does get easier at least on the marketing end she has not advertised in say 20 years all of her business just comes to her based on her quality of work with her clients. 2 years ago she was number one agent out of 600 HUNDRED agents and she does not have a team..

There are dozens of zip codes and hundreds of streets that are fine places to invest in Metro Indianapolis. 

Another couple hundred buck in paint and my wife's labor.  

Credit reports on individual principals are rather inexpensive and title abstract and examine are not more than a couple hundred dollars.

There are hundreds if not thousands in most markets. 

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I know it's a pain to pay the extra couple hundred dollars for re-inspection, but it's always worth it to double check and confirm on your end.

i would not put >$100K into something just to be cash flow negative every month (unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars just lying around that you have no idea what to do with) 

I am an agent who has sold hundreds of Air BNB and have amazing and creative partners including lending

It contains hundreds of files such as ebooks, checklists and spreadsheets for real estate investors: https://www.biggerpockets.com/filesGood luck investing.