I had a previous tenant that was living in the garage and had to do a Holdback from the seller until he moved all his stuff ad to make sure I won't need to evict him.

I had a previous tenant that was living in the garage and had to do a Holdback from the seller until he moved all his stuff ad to make sure I won't need to evict him.

Much less competition in these areas, more distressed properties/sellers, higher % spreads in between Acquisition Cost / ARV, and less capital intensive overall to name just a few reasons.HMLs can be helpful for Acquisition but depending on the price of the property, the fees can eat up much of your profit, especially if there's not much "meat on the bones".

Does Arlington allow short term AirBNB rentals? 

I heavily attract a lot of agents to EXP so I tend to stay on top of what's happening amongst other brokerages if you are looking at the numbers around EXP for flipping homes depending on how many flips you do per year it may look more attractive at other brokerages short term (depends on the amount of flips, price point, etc). 

@Josh Mac keep in mind that Zillow can be completely unaware of factors that affect value...and some of these factors might not be apparent until you see the property in-person.For instance, maybe someone added a bathroom to the house, and now it's a 3/3, but Zillow thinks it's a 3/2.  ...or maybe the house is right next to a busy road with tons of traffic noise, but the Zestimate is based on nearby houses that are on quieter residential streets  ...or the main floor beam under the house is rotted out--Zillow would never know that...In short, there are a ton of factors that can affect a property's value that Zillow might completely miss.The Zestimate can be reasonably accurate in showing a ballpark value...but, I wouldn't make life and death investing decisions based on a Zestimate...

Social security told me I was short 90 days of work credits to draw my benefits and denied me.

I’ll try to make this short: my wife and I own a duplex that we did a live in BRRR (got the refi at 3.5%) and had owned an airbnb that we operated for 6 years but sold because the town decided to do away with them (very nice of them).

3) What's probably best for you is to NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK to find additional seller-financed opportunities.

It's a strategy that could net two properties in short amount of time.