Also, before you buy another property you'll want to determine your ideal next property - meaning, will it be a "rent ready" house, a major renovation project, or somewhere in between.

Almost every research project starts out with an AI inquiry.

I did this prior to my R2R purchase to ensure my numbers were in the same range as R2R's projections.

The building tradesmen are busy too, but I just called ABC and got the name of a guy who buys alot of bitumen roofing so as to get a quote on a leaky patio cover, got a guy to bid cement board skirting on a stick house by calling Palm Harbor mfgr home sales center, got a card from a guy working across the street doing drywall repair and put it in my phone.

I have made some local connections for contractors to do something solo when my current projects wrap up. 

We decided to outsource major tasks such as septic installation, plumbing, heating, and carpentry, while handling smaller projects ourselves—a decision that proved beneficial.

Contractors play such a huge role in real estate projects.

@Chase McArthur would you mind sending a copy of the analyzer you use for financial projections?

Fees are through the roof. 

As a matter of fact, far too many these days don't write contracts or stick to their price commitments after the project is well underway.