It's not large enough to out right buy most properties and then start the brrrr process, but I definitely could use it for down-payments.

They can help you navigate the rental process, screen potential tenants, and handle any maintenance or repair issues that may arise.Overall, there are several avenues you can explore to find renters for your medium term rental property.

**I understand the need for a fee for all the hard work they're doing - but prefer to have strict numbers and processes

Some will tell you "On Title, or no experience", thankfully, there are some lenders who WILL consider GC experience if we can validate with permits pulled on similar addresses/projects - this would be part of the underwriting process.

@Lucas Moncada man if I had a dollar for every time someone thought they had a way to cheat the process...:)Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.When investing in areas they don’t really know, investors should research the different property Class submarkets.

Especially, in small markets like Grove City where there may be limited available data. 

Going through the FHA process has been a headache for me because the underwriter is asking for a lot of information for each of the properties including the signed lease agreements for all tenants.

@Partap Aujla: understand your apprehensions, but not sure there's any easy solution:( If most PM's actually really reviewed their screening/credit report vendor agreements, I'd be surprised if they ALL didn't limit access of the data to only PMC employees. 

My name is Jackie and I have just started in the learning process of the real estate journey.

I hear the BP podcasts reference interesting data points like; price to rent ratio, time on market, vacancy rates, population growth, etc.