We're beginning to invest in single family buy and hold properties in the Lamar County area of the Hattiesburg market, with an eye toward multi-family units in the future.

Hi Jacob,I've been living in the Astoria/LIC area for around 2 years and its quite eye opening seeing all the construction around the 7 N/Q and 7 lines.

Also, in a window well of a house a tree was growing that had been growing for about 8-10 yrs.Keep an eye on the unkept yards for leads.

I will keep my eye on it for now and if nothing has changed for a few months might follow up and see if they have softened their position at all on the mortgage assumption or vendor financing.  

Also, can you edit your original post and add some line spaces for paragraphs, it will make it easier on the eyes.

I've run this by my custodian (Equity Trust) and they are giving me the thumbs up but I wanted a second set of eyes.

Expenses come off of NOI where improvements do not so does that make a difference in the bank's eyes?

When you do that, your OOS investing now comes with some form of a competitive advantage - either boots on the ground that you trust to be your eyes or knowledge of the area which is a huge help.

This not only kept the place clean, but put eyes on the place to let him know if anything was going on he needed to know about.

Well then, get a pro to look over your deal so you have a second pair of eyes on it.