This balanced approach meets your financial goals, diversifies risk, and aligns with your preference for conservative real estate investments.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

Budget $15-$20k for a rewire.To take it a step further, if you build a relationship with your subcontractors they may even teach you how they estimate so you can repeatedly build a robust estimate completely on your own.Excluded from the above is foundation issues & outages in the framing (often caused by foundation issues).

In many cases, it takes a few years to really start seeing any appreciable cash flow, but it is the relationships we make, the learning and overcoming challenges and obstacles every day that is the true rewards in this business.

The best deals definitely do not come from wholesalers, they come from relationships.

I would not overthink this, but would start by building a solid professional relationship with your tenants.

Be careful of investing based on existing relationship.  

From there, I would like to explore house hacking/the BRRR strategy, but I know there are rules, regulations, and connections I will need to make all this happen.If anyone is willing to have a conversation or thinks they could use my help in bettering their real estate business in return for some advice, I would love to at the very least create some new relationships. 

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I've read that this business has a lot to do with relationships to get the supply. 

Like replacing the doors/ locks, etc. and  its getting frustrating.Whenever I articulate my frustrations to my wife it causes friction within our relationship I want to get this house rented asap but I wanted to get a barometer to see if perhaps my expectations are a bit unrealistic , especially with consideration that no one could get in the house due to the fleas until recently.