Check out LJI Wealth Management with United wholesale Mortgage.They have a construction to perm loan program for investment homes.

Purchase price: $68,000 Cash invested: $5,000 Sale price: $99,000 4 Unit quad in Medina NYRenters were tough and management company's locations are too far for a regular check up.Had a renter pass away and then DCS came in and the house was condemned due to farm animals in the upstairs unit where the person passed.We were too far to keep tabs on this investment so we sold the home.

Probably won't ditch the property manager due to day job. 

That was enough to get me through the door but his company offered a few other things I didn't expect such as an intro to the lender, title company, insurance agent, and property management team.

financing, taxes, insurance, deferred maintenance, groundskeeping, shared utilities, property management...like i said, i'm skeptical that it will truly cash flow as much as you think it might.

Logical Property Management is managing both duplexes. or LPMOpen to chatting about ongoing renovations, updates, certificates, tenants, PMs and the neighborhood itself. 

With that said, if you take either route, manage it responsible and hold it for the long term term, you will almost certainly come out a winner in the end.

She did get a signed lease agreement, even having the managing partner sign as a personal Guarantor, but not a dollar has been paid.

This method has worked for thousands of years and is still the best option today.A job in Property Management has a low bar of entry.

As investors we don't pick guarantees, we assign probabilities, allocate on conviction and then manage downside risk where possible.