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Originally posted by @Ryan Coleman:@Shawn Morey How has your success been with this service/leads?

Hi Robin,I do a fair bit of business as a lender in South Carolina; a lot of short-term rental investors tend to focus on the Charleston & Myrtle Beach areas, but if you are looking for properties that are still reasonably priced and don't mind some renovations, Columbia can be a great choice 

The same amount invested in the securities market stays fully deployed for the entire term - in other words, all $12k of the principal (the basis) is at work for the entire 5 years.

If you can check these boxes off you would be able to start buying long term rentals with having owned zero real-estate prior to the first transaction. 

Usually after your first or second home under VA, you'll run out of entitlement and likely need to switch to conventional financing later on, unless you sell the previous homes that were originally acquired with VA financing. 

I bought the property from a flipper, but it was originally built in 1960.

And the more motivated the seller is, the more willing the seller will negotiate terms and price. 

Originally posted by @Don Konipol:@Tanganika DardenThere are “finder” companies locating all kinds of unclaimed funds in government trust accounts.

(Not that they actually set mortgage rates - but they influence them.)You now know that as you look at 2/1 houses that anything priced near or above $145,000 isn’t worth pursuing in the short term… so you look for ones that are cheaper than that.