@Courtney JonesI think your best bet is to narrow down on regions from home.

I'm from Wilmington, Delaware currently but work in the Philadelphia region and outside in the counties.

We're about half way there.After you have ten properties financed in your name, you are looking at local/ regional banks for commercial loans and portfolio loans.

He has a resident manager at each complex, a regional manager overseeing the resident managers.

@Troy Fisher, @Tiffany Plovie, @Kevin Carbon run the local meet-ups for the Eastside, Seattle, and Tacoma-Lakewood respectively.Since you've already started to focus in on rental properties in the Puget Sound region, I would recommend you start looking into budgeting.

well, in our area, for anything over 8-9%, you're going to do some significant value add or take some pretty good tenant risk (work), so it will ultimately depend on the area/region you focus.

You can find commercial lenders if you call around and talk to some smaller/regional banks.

Hoping to sell upwards of $225k (shouldn't be too hard in our region).John is also interested in starting an LLC with us after this first flip and building a business doing this together.So Chad and I were thinking the split seems a bit high in his favor.

Although anyone can find success in any market, Oakville is expensive but I'am sure this is opportunity somewhere in your backyard.I try to focus on anything in my area with an 7-8+% cap rate not easy but achievable, also must maintain positive monthly cashflow.Although it's getting tougher and tougher, we say over 6% appreciation last year and Toronto money is starting to flow into the region raising that number even higher.http://www.meetup.com/K-W-C-Multi-Family-2-units-Investor-Mastermind/  Come check out my monthly investor meetup if you're curious about my market and networking with some other investors.

I wonder whether there is any regional preference as to which  insurance company to go with and whether your agent have to be from the same locale.