Larger homes provide more opportunity to make the home unique and capture larger families/groups to share the expenses of one home vs renting 2-3.

BrendonWelcome to Bigger Pockets and good luck investing!

Passive investors who are willing to go out further on the risk spectrum, in exchange for higher potential returns.Short answer: banks won’t give all the capital needed to execute no matter how good your relationship is.

As a realtor I don’t need a system like PropStream but I would like to be able to get hold of potential sellers

Certainly partnering with companies that have consistent replacement properties available makes sense if the properties meet your investment guidelines.  

But, we still hire outside to make sure we don't miss anything.If we had not hired an inspector when we first started, we would have not caught countless items, and would have overpaid on every deal.If you're going to hire a property manager, and expect them to give you an objective analysis, good luck.

Basically you just have to move real quick and make an informed, educated decision. 

I ended up getting lucky and finding this one on zillow.The biggest problem I'm seeing is that everyone in my area wants close to retail price for fixer uppers - and people are paying it.

He wants to focus on large ticket items for property managers: roofs, turns, hvac replacement, whole house painting, things like that.

I met with a seller, and we have verbally come to an agreement on purchase price, interest rate, down payment, term length and monthly payment.