Lots of older buildings with good bones.

From all accounts, he's building a great GC Business. 

I posted a few deal diaries on Reddit and got 3 client leads all were complete junk, one I swear I heard his mom yelling at him in the background during our call, another was talking about building a huge portfolio of rental properties when had $0 in savings.

My current main focus is to build out my network, put together a team, and eventually close on a deal for my first multi-family property within the next year.

I now own several small multi family buildings there.

Quote from @Gian Pazzia: For properties that small, you should budget $450 per property and use cost segregation software like the one below from a trusted brand that has been in business almost 25 years.

The architect and I have been thinking the exact same thing, with all the people looking to build/ live in this area we could sell just about anything under 500k instantly.

OOS investing is a lot harder than advertised.if you pick a local or local-ish market you can spend time in it, walk properties, go to REIA meetings, build a network.

You will benefit from their credit use and it will build your credit score without having to spend anything.1.

There is no FHA 3.5% down on an apartment building or a shopping enter, there's lots of gov't incentives for "everyone to own a home" and since 1-4 units residential are all considered "single family" homes that means young investors get to ride that gravy chain for up to 4 units, but nothing like that exists for CRE (the gov't backed CRE mortgage options require MORE experience than traditional/vanilla commercial mortgages).Let me know if I can help.