When it comes to owning real estate, you don't necessarily have to go through a traditional route.

The fact that the property was in a condition that no traditional lender would consider worked to our advantage.

Will convert to traditional rental June 1st.

My whole idea behind this was after the first year I would use the return from the refinance and personal saved income for a down payment on a traditional loan for another property.

I have allowed prospects to view a unit without having one of my team members present especially with COVID but here is what I do.Install a keypad door lock that you can control using your phone rather than the traditional lockbox.

I like the aspect of not having to go get proper mortgages all the time, the closing costs are much reduced from traditional mortgages.  

Some new agents opt to sit with a traditional Brokerage in lieu of this that way they can have more direct hand-holding and oversight which is important when you're starting out. 

Have you thought starting with a house hack then going into a traditional investment play?

Cold calling/call centers/ paid leads was something we did a lot of and it worked well enough as one lead source among many, but we found in order to scale efficiently past a certain level it was important to focus more on generating inbound leads as much as possible which we did through consistently asking for referrals, brand building, web presence/ SEO/ content, email marketing, advertising both online and off, media coverage, social media, events/shows/speaking engagements, traditional/ offline networking, direct mail, etc.

If it’s a full gut, then it would behoove you to do a traditional forced air system.