I'm going to visit a few banks this week and see what kind of loans I can pre-qualify for.

The types of improvements that borrowers may make using Section 203(k) financing include: structural alterations and reconstruction modernization and improvements to the home's functionelimination of health and safety hazardschanges that improve appearance and eliminate obsolescencereconditioning or replacing plumbing; installing a well and/or septic systemadding or replacing roofing, gutters, and downspoutsadding or replacing floors and/or floor treatmentsmajor landscape work and site improvementsenhancing accessibility for a disabled personmaking energy conservation improvementsHUD requires that properties financed under this program meet certain basic energy efficiency and structural standards.For more information visit: HUD PortalHope this helps!

So have you physically visited all your properties before closing each deal?  

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Concept requires minimum cooking so no need for the expensive kitchen requirements (hoods, grease traps, etc)Looking for a high traffic area with national anchors with a young affluent demographic anywhere from 1,000-1,800 sqft.I would also be open to an up and coming trendy part of town visited heavily by young professionals or a food popular food market stall.Have $135k in Personal SavingsAnother $25-$75 in business loans and/or angel investingSolid credit Low 700's with extremely minimal outstanding overhead expenses So what I would like to know is how feasible is it for me to get the kind of space i'm looking for and what should I be doing to strengthen my credibility over the next year?

So... in addition to re targeting them (both through pixels from website visits but also uploading all the contact info from all incoming calls) I pre-target.

Having the street name be Denny is much more preferable than MLK, since people usually associate that with a busy street in a high-crime area in South Seattle, but we're actually in Cap Hill / Madrona / Madison Valley and our price tag is $1.3M.We never followed through with it though, although we'll always wonder :-)I honestly think we lost some buyers who didn't even want to visit the house because it was on MLK.

(youtube) visit home depot and start rehabbing.

We visited Tumbleweed Tiny Houses in Colorado Springs last year and were really impressed by them.

I performed my analysis as follows.The 1st column is what was sent as proforma, the 2nd is adjusted based on what I believe to be actuals after visiting (2 units vacant) and an expense added for the mowing and plowing.