I actually had a tenant who was elderly and without a car who paid my increase in rent before ultimately leaving at which point she paid the penalty to break the lease and leave.

This info is just aggregated from list brokers and ultimately city, county and credit reporting agencies.

Hey James since you're looking at Bham turnkey I figured I'd drop a link to The Ultimate Guide to Grading Birmingham Alabama Neighborhoods for you.

I have found that investment properties in the area are having bidding wars that ultimately raise the price past the value of the damaged properties.

Give this a read:  The Ultimate Guide to TCPA Compliance and A2P 10DLC Regulations

I think you also need to decide what your ultimate goals are... if it's to build a cash flowing portfolio of 5-20 units to build equity and cashflow for retirement, investing close to home and doing your own management makes sense.

Everything I'm reading about Bridge has been positive and I especially like how they try to do things right initially and if they can't, then they will make things right ultimately.  

My ultimate goal was to be a buy and hold investor.

Ultimately, the lien will take precedence over most things (including a mortgage).

Ultimately I got approved for much less than I was expecting and even less much less that the deposits I had in my savings acct. alone.I was just curious if you woudn't mind expanding on your experience with getting your line of credit set up via a guest post on the BP blog or just by sharing it through your own personal blog.