I finally settled in Nashville, TN and plan to invest in Memphis, Nashville, and Central Arkansas (Little Rock).

Purchase price: $139,000 Cash invested: $10,000 Sale price: $185,000 Finally!

The final problem is that banks do not want to use appraisals funded by the owners, for various reasons.

After a few years of preparation I’m finally ready to begin my investing career in 2020.

It cost me a lot of money, and was probably more headache then just managing my own properties, so finally I took them back.That being said, I trust there are some great management companies out there, I just didn't end up with them. 

So from strictly scavenging information from here and YouTube I was able to obtain a property on contract (owner finance) and have finally come to the point where I have to make decisions about what to do with the property next.

Finally there are subscriptions to data too, Realquest has both free data and subscription data, and what's great about their subscription data, is you can do a comp search.

A clarification would be very helpful in me finally finding my carrying costs for ANY property.

I was thinking of using $10K to pay some of the mortgage to lower the monthly mortgage payment to be about $26 less than the rent we will receive from it so it can finally cashflow.

My partner and I reached out to the manager almost daily for about a week and a half before finally getting a response.