I used Corporate Housing By Owner and used a discount code I found on line to get the Silver Package so it came out to be about $350 for the year.

I had a landscaping business in college, have dabbled with multiple online business opportunities throughout my educational career, and have continued to read and read about real estate investing.

My family owns a nice lot, about 1 acre, along the major highway in my area (Southeast Iowa).In the future, I plan to split the lot and build two new homes.

A few things:Found the listing online, saw the pics.

That information might be available online, or by phone, or in a few jurisdictions you may need to go ask them. 

The move-in date is 8/6, however they live out of town and won't be back for college until September (I told them I couldn't push the lease out a month).Given that they don't live in town, will it suffice to have them sign it online (currently using an online forms management software that makes online signatures quite easy)? 

If it's the latter, the online auction sites start the bids low as a teaser in order to get competition and more bids.  

.)* Reserves - savings from each rent payment for future expensesIf you wanted to use more like a PM, you could set up an online form for tenants to input requests and include attachments and track maintenance through it.Hope that helps.PS - I still use Excel for projections/modeling

My goal would be to purchase a triplex/quadplex in the next 2 years using FHA and house hacking, but with such a low down payment, I can't find ANYTHING in the majority of LA county that could even remotely be positive cash flow.

Over the years there's been slight loss of population, loss of a major beer distributor.