My cousin has a $75k/year job with excellent credit (he’s been working there for 4 years) How do I structure using his income and credit for a loan to buy a rental?

Currently, I'm having great difficulty finding an excellent tenant to move into my house.

We don’t know anyone in the area, but even if you get a referral you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes

@John Warren that’s excellent that your flip allowed you to partner up and invest in 29 units, that’s absolutely something to be proud of!

That said I think it is poor form to take the money being as they are the ones who selected the tenant that caused the problem in the first place. 

No referrals, but you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes

We don’t know anyone in the area, but you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”, since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processes

Since Jan. 1, 2018, some 107 companies have moved their headquarters to Texas from the Golden State, according to Vranich, president of McKinney-based site-selection consulting firm Spectrum Location Services. 

You should be able to use an excel sheet until you begin to scale.  

Excellent work!