Being on the broker end you can shop with 100+ lenders vs simply 1 or 2.

Is everything packed and he’s living in a sleeping bag?

They will have the time to shop it and makes sure the coverage during rehab is correct. 

And part of that is education on neighborhoods: you have to understand what you are signing up for, or in other words, why it is a really good idea to not shop in the bargain cave.

Anything anyone can add would be helpful as I have 16 residential properties and partnership in a shopping center but this side of the business is brand-new to me. 

Short term shop all the way! 

Almost every new agent asks about splits...easy thing...I'd rather go to a shop with 90/10 split vs 50/50 split....but this is probably the least of a new agents worries for the first year or two.   

To keep material costs down we shop Facebook market place for kitchen cabinets and etc.

I own a house on a dead end street that has a railroad repair line (where they drag a few train cars for repair to the shop) on the back property line and an interstate highway on the other property line, and even though I would never live there and think the noise is terrible a lot of the time (no sound barriers anywhere, though I have trees and bushes), I have never had a penny of trouble renting this house and have had some long term tenants in there who told me the sound of the highway put them to sleep. 

He has been helping me shop for a couple properties this year (unfortunately didn’t close due to a fire the week before closing and a seller going mia).