Appreciate all the engagement in these forums on Bigger Pockets!

However, be mindful of the repayment terms and interest rates.Risk Management: Ensure you have a solid plan for managing the debt and contingencies for market fluctuations.Practical Steps and StrategiesMarket Research: Continue leveraging your knowledge of the Asheville market to find undervalued properties with high rental potential.Financial Planning: Work with a financial advisor to create a detailed budget for your investment strategy, including purchase, rehab, and holding costs.Networking: Engage with local real estate investment groups and continue learning from successful investors through platforms like Bigger Pockets.Boot Camps and Education: Your proactive approach to education through boot camps and BP PRO is excellent.

Building a strong foundational knowledge base is essential, and you can achieve this by engaging with communities like ours here or by joining your local Real Estate Investors Associations (REIAs).

You are not licensed, at least in part, because the activity you're engaged in would be prohibited of any licensee. 

They want more online leads, but I'm quickly learning their bigger issue is outbound sales & marketing, i.e. understanding who their customers (and referral partners) are and engaging them meaningfully.I've been lurking on BP and researching their build areas and it seems like their primary clients are developers and investors, not individuals building their dream vacation home (though they are part of the mix).Their value prop is dollar efficiency and speed.

Its all fine when it all works but there is no way you can have perfection of 15k deals and not have some warts and some bad ones were the players just go dark and walk away which causes the underlying lender into a foreclosure.

@Tylere WeaverIf you sell now and seller finance it I do t believe you can then do a 1031 later as the property was already sold.Check with your intermediary- there are several here on BP you can engage with.

I am a firm believer in "What goes 'around...comes around" and I wish no calamity on Clayton Morris and wife Natali Morris, Larry Blessman, Nicole Meckley, Linzi Del Conti,Kate Federico (All directly connected to Morris Invest and party to this transaction).Last but by no means, certainly not least, and likely a major player in this SCAM Herb Whaley and allegedly his wife Natalie Bastin at OceanPointe Properties in Indianapolis, Indiana.And Hope against Hope, Clayton Morris could save his reputation not by hiding from his responsibility behind his LLCs , but make everyone he has harmed whole again for those who deserve to be recompensed for the harm done to them.

Statement fro the National Association of Realtors: “NAR launched an all-hands advocacy effort on this issue, meeting with VA officials, engaging with lawmakers and rallying our industry partners to ensure this prohibition was lifted,” Shannon McGahn, the chief advocacy officer at NAR, said in a statement.

The type of business engagement and the level of interest in the counterparty or its assets influence the goals of a due diligence inquiry.For instance, a cordial agreement between a potential buyer and an experienced seller could provide the groundwork for a long-term alliance, whereas a hostile asset sale during bankruptcy would call for a different strategy.