By accurately and fairly breaking down the contract sum into corresponding values, the GC will be incentivized to push production on each task, trying to achieve the percentage of completion milestone when payment is due, typically at 25% increments. 

All the best on your success through this community. 

I am willing to do house hacking as well to achieve this goal.

Best of luck on continued successes!

He keeps his income stream without having to manage the property anymore, you get the property and can upgrade it.If you can successfully upgrade one unit and the exterior and show the increased rent follows, it might be easier to get an investor to help with the others.

I’m glad you’ve had good success thus far.

Sounds like he is somewhat successful, but it could be because of the amount of people paying $997 to sign up plus $97/month coaching fee (not sure if the cost is still the same from what was said 10 years ago) https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

I am not too familiar with Oildale, but I have heard of other investors having success with rentals in that area.

@Chaz Bollwinkel what’s up man, I drive for dollars in my marketing I’ve had success with it.

That doesn't necessarily mean a paid membership here, but the point is that denigrating memberships is really just saying "I don't think what I want to achieve, or offer, is worth paying the Pro membership fee", which is about $20 per month.