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Cozy definitely has potential, it feels user-friendly. 

In another life, I could see you being a great corporate raider, a master of mergers and acquisitions, a junior junk bond trader with humble origins who rose to command a massive hedge fund empire, amassing $Billions$ of dollars and owning whole city blocks of Class A apartments just for your personal residence, in addition to a private island in the Caribbean.

Hoping for a good rate, and user friendly.

Personally, I would recommend areas that will command rents of a minimum of $850-$900.

Generally for most markets that are above 100k SFH you want to use the 1% rule (sometimes called the 2% rule for legacy users).

Don't solely look at gross rents but get a feel for what units in varying conditions command in rent.   

I want to use real estate commissions to spring board my investment capital.

Depends on where you put the money.If you can lock it up, even at $600k, put in the paint and tile work needed, you could get $670k to be safe and still have a decent gross profit.You should use the BP calculators or a spreadsheet and look at where your max offer price might be.Also, just a BiggerPockets user interface tip, when you reply using the "quote" feature, you want to type your response below the quote.

Hey guys first time user glad to join hopefully many smart minds i can get help from.