@Joshua Tikal you can search the Bigger Pockets site for "Laramie" and find any posts or members that have mentioned it.

I'm learning how to work through the analysis on each with the Bigger Pockets calculator right now.

At the local meet several agents walk up to the group introduce themselves stating they have tape and are wholeseller, pocket listings when I notice their license number signaling they are brand new realtors with ZERO transactions that is the end of it.

Im brand new to the game and I dont know whether i should just tell them im going straight up to the market price or slowly increase rent to the market price.

Remember the game "musical chairs"?

And if I wait 2 years before selling the house, I will of had them pay off 24kSo when I sell the house I theoretically get 24k for free in my pocket.

I'm a real estate investor from Southern California who has a few rental properties currently. I've done 5 buy-and-hold deals personally over a long period of time and I'm looking to ramp up my activity significantly....

Hello Bigger Pockets family!

We are am working with a knowledgeable real estate agent, but I was interested in input from Bigger Pockets to get a fuller understanding of the challenges and opportunities. 

So if you were to buy with a hard money or renovation loan, and you buy it right, you could buy and fix up a house with no money out of pocket with the right lender and as long as your purchase, reno costs and reno loan costs are under 70% of the value of the home, you could then refinance into a permanent loan and hold it.There are some smaller local banks that have a rehab to permanent where you can buy the house and renovated it with the construction loan and without "refinancing" the loan converts to a permanent loan after the renovation is complete.