We have purchased older, cheaper homes and new construction homes for our buy and hold portfolio and we have been happy with all of them.If you have a goal of having multiple rental properties and you start out buying the more expensive homes then it will take you longer to accumulate as many properties as you'd like, unless you are already flush with cash to go out and buy them all.

However, i'm not that concerned either because i've done most of my own maintenance and light remodeling in multiple homes i've owned.

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They have multiple branches in Bell county.  

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That's a great idea, applying multiple times all and once AND getting cards for your LLCThanks again

Do you think a website would make finding/dealing with multiple bird dogs make it more efficient?

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I am friends with multiple attorneys, my neighbor is an escrow officer (who did our personal home's refi at rock bottom costs), we have a terrific realtor, and my father owns a major home inspection company (www.homecert.com <--hopefully posting links is acceptable).