In our little town, Buy & Holds will probably be the best strategy, but we are open to all sorts of techniques and methods.

I became a wholesaler to build cash over time to invest in other areas.I still use the same techniques I learned in wholesaling to acquire commercial properties, land, and notes.

I was told today they have a Facebook Group - on a call with them, with someone with an incredibly challenging accent.   

For the home I'm buying the parts and fixtures for now for two full baths completely gutted, which will be not upper middle or higher end for this market but high end with a incredible older (1938) home that's been updated with a very high end kitchen and more but two original and very obsolete baths upstairs, for the shower for instance, I'm quite sure a normal mixer and shower head, even if its a nice set, won't cut it.

I have a current tenant who would like to buy a rental house he's leasing. I'm thinking of doing a 2 year lease with option to purchase.
I'm curious the opinions of the group
1. How much down?
2. How much rent c...

It's incredible how truly just 1 block over, a house is $50k and then the next street is filled with $85k properties.

For this type of asset you're looking at the NOI, and calculating that is incredibly important. 

. :-)There is such a low bar to entry into the field, and frankly it is an incredibly complex job (once again, to do it right) Heck, I even had a license (in Cali) back in the day.

However if you only invest it in training, then at the end you have lost $50,000 and still don't own anything.There are a lot less inexpensive ways to learn about real estate in my opinion.Don't fall for any high pressure techniques from any guru.....the typical scenario is to go to a free 2-3 hour training session. 

None of us like ultimatums or, "take it or leave it" offers either.It's better to offer them 2-3 options where you "win" no matter which they choose.Another great technique is to ask them an open-ended question(s) that gets them to see the challenge from your point of view.So, let's apply these to their requests:1) This is more common than you'd think.