Congratulations on the move and transition into this exciting industry.

Most of the smaller lenders are, in fact, a captive finance company that exists to finance customers or prospective tenants of a related retail or land lease community operation.

It seems like there is a good amount of retail off Freemansburg Ave (she lives off of it), and I know there are lots of events and festivals in the area.

When retail buyers will come in an offer 20% above asking, it gets harder to find a deal.Furthermore, if you like your day job (as I do), you're going to have less time to manage these deals and travel around.

The market in my area just stopped and I could not find a retail buyer after the flip and the bank would not refinance for 6 months to get a loan to pay off the hard money and turn it into a rental.  

Retail price is 35,000.

I've run my own independent agency since 2007 been in the industry since the early 90's have 1 commercial and 2 residential properties I let currently.

Usually you'll Net more if you do the upgrades yourself and sell to a retail buyer, as opposed to a lower price for an investor/do it yourselfer.

Real Estate is an amazing industry, I am so blessed to have stumbled upon it over 10 years ago. 

@Bob Faulis Not only you have a couple of people reading your updates, you actually made me create an account here and start thinking about getting into this industry after having a really bad experience with the market crash, that led me to go into other industry (Recycling Industry) where I'm doing OK at the moment, but maybe I should start to diversify my sources of income.