Our best deals have come thru brokers.  

We both are into real estate for the past couple years, and she's closed some deals for her clients.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

If you find any deals in Clarksville, send 'em this way!

Get a few of those and read them - that way you can start to get familiar with what kinds of things can happen in a house, and how big of a deal it is to fix each one of them.If there are any new houses being built in your area (like, within bike or bus/train range), and the neighborhood is relatively OK, go over to that neighborhood, after the workers have left for the day, and see what building a house looks like. 

I'm trying to assemble a group of like-minded people to take down deals and improve each other individually.

Would love to help you find your first deal in your home city, let me know if you need anything!

On a $100M deal, they might get a 2.5% acquisition fee.

it seems like a confluence of factors have made it difficult to get started - there is lots of competition for deals, both on and off market; money is expensive; the trades are booked up forever; etc. 

Heloc is around 8.5% interest and deals im looking at are 15% coc self managed, theres a bit of spread.