This meant digging up the ground between the street meter and the house.The best way to deal with this is charge them an additional fee for the water. 

In starting out, I used to think my team meant having just one broker.  

But, that meant it tied up a lot of our available cash so, even while we were waiting on it to close, i was already in contact with our banker to take out a loan on it...no issue thus far. 

the very folks all the covid laws are meant to protect. 

I'm guessing you meant that to be a 5% downpayment in cash and financing the other 95%.

I used 5% for all three expenses (vacancy, capex) and did not elect property management fees as I am self managing.

Some investors in your spot elect to use a SLOC.

The ARV I used was meant to show the new rent price once rehab was done on the place.

I was able to borrow against the 1st property to buy the second property a 3 years after that I borrowed against the second property paid off the 1st property sold it to recoupe all of my money bought 2 more had 3 loans which meant less money a month in my pocket but build portfolio.

The one thing I will say is that DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) is really meant for the long term.