Earthquakes are a risk everyone reluctantly accepts, including 88% of all CA homeowners who also don’t insure for it.

For example, when I search for single family homes up to $100k in Pensacola there are only 16 options as of this morning and only 27 if I open up the search to include the surrounding areas. 

We want to build the team to make this work including an experienced investor and go from there. in no way shape or form do we want to go into this fully loaded and halfcocked.

Under the definition of private lender you proffer we would not be included at this point, despite the fact that the borrower is getting almost exactly the same thing as when I was lending only my own money.  

When the cat leaves, the mice will play"As an out of state investor, the mice are always playing.It takes years and years to develop trustworthy relationships with feet on the ground.Even then, you will loose money just like we do to this day in Toledo to shady contractors, etc...And we have a whole team of people on the ground including myself and my co-founder.Granted, if you do it right you can find amazingly cheap deals, renovate and have immediate equity plus jaw dropping cashflow.I would advise moving to the market you are considering and getting your hands dirty for a few years.Easier said than done but if I moved from Sydney, Australia to Toledo, Ohio.Anyone can do the same lolWishing you much success

You do that because that 35% includes the cash buyer's profit on rehabbing it along with holding costs and other things.

These people include:@Dave Short@Shawn Holsapple@Ryan Mullin@Will Hull@Brett Snodgrass@Stephen Barton@Don HarrisAccount Closedand many more I'm forgetting at the moment.  

It appears the units are below market, however with some cosmetic repairs and perhaps some capex's I feel I could increase the rent by at minimum (based on local comps) 68%.I would offer 85% of list and estimated $20,000 in repairs/upgrades (this is probably a generous estimate - the property appears to be in good shape, basically needs a face lift).With all these figures, including the 50% rule, financing with 20% down @ 3.5%, I come out to a profit of $262 per unit and a cash-on-cash return of 9.53%.So, does this seems reasonable?

The the lowest downpayment FHA loans allow is 3.5%), so I would need  $ 7,000 cash not including closing cost.  

I believe the total cost of the course was around $600 which includes the year long access to the course, and two textbooks.