@Ron Fletcher it sounds like you have 6 more units to buy, quickly!

Overall the property is in a good location for commuting, would make a great starter home for the price-point, and a similar spec home sold very recently in the same town rather quickly.

I am also considering to go to Home Depot or Lows to get familiar with costs of material by myself and also get contacts of various contractors or handymans from my area so that I can just quick give them a call later and find out potential cost by discribing situations.

I would prefer a safe first investment with a lower return to high risk.

You could offer seller financing/ land contract if they don’t sell quick with cash offers 

Dan Hi Dan, I think of it this way.Hard Money Lenders are people in the business who respond quickly, are set up to do real estate transactions and charge more money for the convenience and speed.

It started out great and he was always very quick to get back to us.  

Once you do that you can figure out quickly if a property is a good investment.  

Softie landlords can grow callousness but quick to react fly off the handle types do not LL well.

Hello all. I had no previously considered investing in real estate until just recently, and I am just getting started. Right now I am trying to consider the costs/benefits of taking some money out of stocks to buy a p...