The problem with many of the houses in the New Orleans area is that there was a long moratorium on building permits while the authorities were deciding where and under what circumstances rebuilding was going to be allowed, if at all.

The most important thing is to develop a track record to attract investors and to learn to convince them you'll be a good steward for their money.

The market will be stronger over the next few years as it takes time for the big reits and developers to get new units online to fill this demand.

Heading back to ohio middle of next week, we are starting two more crews when I get back.I have a couple hundred questions to ask here over the next couple weeks as I develop and implement the systems that will allow us to ramp things up a couple notches.

We developed a really good relationship!

If you've seen this, what were the circumstances?

Congrats on the success you've had so far, and I hope you can share with us as you develop your systems.

How to transition from inquiring about a property as a fixer, to transitioning it into a referral lead is also something that I will need to develop as experience grows.

A friend approached me to help him with a property he inherited from his mom passing where a developer wanted to buy from him for commercial development.The developer after me catching everything in the contract to tie up the property with the seller asked me to work with him on the other parcels as he would rather be working with me than against me assembling the properties.Off I went after that for about 3 years in land development and then went into existing investment properties.I did things kamikaze style and figured them out on my own through the school of hard knocks.In your situation if you are focusing on apartments I would do the following.

I have sources at way better terms than that but as J said is personal relationships developed over time.