If you are looking for some good meetups I would say NCREIA has some pretty good ones but there are also smaller meetups like the TREIA meetups they typically have every Wednesday, one of my good friends hold a deal exchange every two weeks on thursday.

I mostly do long term rental holds in VA and NC.

If it is truly a bad deal, that's a different story; I can't answer that for you.Reality is that if you are a long term buy and hold investor, your purchase price really doesn't matter that much.

I think the biggest question these days is how long are you planning to hold this?

I think it's key to hold brokers accountable via certain milestones. 

If they qualify and submit a holding deposit and/or sign a lease within a certain amount of time (a week usually) and I haven't run the checks on the other applicants, I return their money.   

. - I do not see holding costs.  

I build duplexes for long term holds. 

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Granville.

Title companies need to insist everyone use a trusted notary, not just any random remote notary, and take additional steps for any remote closings such as holding funds in escrow after any remote closing until they can 100% verify that they’re not going to be wired to a scammer overseas.