Excellent opportunity for my buyer Lessons learned?

One of the things I've heard about hard money is in addition to higher rates, they have pre-payment penalties.Current or prior ownership of real estate: as stated, I am currently renting and intend to rent for at least another year or so.Value of property at present and/or your offer price: $158000 (zestimate)After repair value: $Anticipated or actual appraisal issues: will perform one during due diligence Current rents per month: $425Fair market rents per month: $500Down payment or equity: $30000Source of down payment funds, if applicable: see aboveIncome Source: Salaried/hourly W2, VA comp, Gross monthly income (optional): $1800 tax exempt, approx $4-5k in base wage (+ OT opportunities)Monthly debt obligations appearing on credit report, plus (if applicable) personal rent and alimony/child support/etc: $800/mo in rentFICO: Excellent Credit issues: None.

Do you have any recommendations for quality, fair-priced General Contractors in the Nashville Area?

@Ryan Dossey This excellent to read.

What company would allows an excel file to be uploaded and filtered for equity?

Business credit depends on good to excellent personal credit, comes with 0% interest to sweeten the deal and doesn’t report to your personal credit reports unless you default.

Brian is right on; Marvin Integrity is an excellent choice - it's firber glass, which is superior to vinly in many ways.

On an affordable flip the economics are not there, especially for this market.It would be great to find a local guy, but we are out of state and it's very tough to know the quality of the material from a phone call.

It's been eons since I shopped for a dishwasher, and never for a rental yet, but given the unit which needs the machine isn't super high-end, I'm leaning towards the 400-500 price point (quality/value/reliability).

And, by the way, this has nothing to do with quality of tenants.