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.

They have multiple branches in Bell county.  

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?

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).

Like kenneth said get multiple quotes but don't be scared to throw in the smaller man as well and get a quote see what they can offer.

Has anyone been able to secure a LOC or HELOC against multiple residential properties held under LLC names?

I have lots of friends in the business who are more than happy to refer me to people with good reputations, and I know how to get multiple bids on jobs.The property is a mile from my house, so it would be easy to go over there multiple times a day when I need to.

I had multiple potential tenants from E5 and below, and one of my properties is leased to military.