Once AL started re-opening from Covid19, we reduced the rent price to $1,850, with a first month $500 move in incentive discount.

As a new investor who has never purchased a property, you have to get over the biggest hurdle of them call—FEAR.

Just curious to see what kind of cash or other valuables investors have found while rehabbing a property. Like behind a wall, in the rafters kind of find. I found $3,000 while demoing out a built in vanity/make-up are...

What have you learned to be the biggest determining factors of success when it comes to raising capital for a project?

The two biggest considerations are closing costs and hold time.

Whenever you are looking to end up with the biggest/most expensive house, be VERY conservative.

Before you spend a $1.00 on any investment, this is my BIGGEST piece of advise for you.

There are a lot of great options out there; aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

Biggest obstacle thus far is finding a good dependable/honest General Contractor.  

Here is the guide BP provides: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guidesThe biggest thing I have learned when it comes to tenant screening is to really look at tenants objectively.