Quote from @Rose White: When is the best time to ask your new / possible future tenant for a background check?

Wishing you the best on your journey.

I am looking into REVA Global and Steller Staff currently because my best leads come from people who have VAs doing cold calling for them.

Despite the guru fed “misinformation” about all these under market price deals, they are actually very rare and require (1) the investor recognizing value that the seller and the rest of the market misses or (2) a seller with a need for an immediate sale and a buyer with the CASH immediately available to conclude a very quick closing usually forgoing inspections, financing, and other contingencies. 

You're likely best off wholesaling the property and using those funds to invest in the deal or invest in something else.

We could be very agressive on this and lower our tax liability.We might be romanticizing the real estate opportunity to fast track us to FIRE but we're looking at all these levers and trying to figure out what is the right one / right order to pull.

Very short seasoning period.

Looking for best options.

I wouldn't get it tangled up with the operations/financials of the property.

Buffalo, New York, has once again been named the nation’s hottest housing market for 2025, marking the first time a city has held this title in consecutive years.