For straight up buy, hold and rent, you'd have to be more bullish on the market than I am in most mls listed deals I'm seeing.It looks like I'm going to be listing a fixer with a shop in Kennewick soon.

For example, I have my SC license and am shopping for a new primary residence in NC.

Its one of the reasons Brie and I started turn key reviews.. so folks like you would have a website that does not have a squeeze page to shop all the turn key companies in the US>  

I receive a lot of leads from our site and at this point it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

In California, looking to see the best way to gift a rental property to a child and best way for both parties to avoid as much tax as possible.

In California, looking to see the best way to gift a rental property to a child and best way for both parties to avoid as much tax as possible.

So, essentially maintenance free for a while.Price $291,900.0025% down: $72,975.99P&I: $938 (180 day lock at 3.124%- had to hardcore shop around for this)total expenses including HOA: $1,422.50Projected Gross monthly income $1795-$1895 (still being built- not a ton of true comps-realtors think might be more with big pharma and Amazon moving in, along with all the development/proximity to RDU/Downtown)NOI (cash on cash): 6.13% - 7.8 %5 year ROI:  14% - 17.7%*Already has gained equity and isn't finished being built. 

Once you know what your hypothetical buying power would be, you can shop and see what type of property you could actually buy.

What I'm finding is that conventional single family loans I can get for ~5% down but once I start looking at conventional loans for 2 unit they go up to ~15% down and higher the more units the property  You should consider shopping around for a different loan officer maybe a broker.

Unless the landlord is really cheap and willing to sacrifice vacancy time for cheaper labor/materials cost, then a professional PM should be hiring professional crews to do the work...people where that task is their main job....not some side job that they can do when they get a chance...hell, I can do thatSo....you pay for vacancy time....or you pay for a more professional crew to do it faster...your choice.I'd be shopping for a new PM...... it may be even more important to find a new one BEFORE you go out of country since once you aren't around the current one may get even worse and then you will be trying to deal with issues or find a new one while you are gone.