Here is the deal, we sent out direct mail and got a ton of leads, this is one.House: Duplex 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom downstairs/1 bedroom 1 bathroom upstairs, 2 stall detached garage, owner states not a lot of repairs needed (maybe $2,000 total)Current Rent: $1,225 totalHouse assessed at $96,000Current owner owes $52,000Wholesale offer (from our formula that would make sense for us to buy it wholesale): $53,000 cash - owner declined (too low)If we keep it to rent out do we get a hard or private money loan to purchase for a higher cash offer (we think he would take $70,000) and then take it to the bank after a certain amount of time to get a conventional loan because we will have almost 30% equity in it when we buy it?

Of course tenants can lose their job and unexpected life events happen even we we did our job right.Property management fees vary from low flat fee to 10%.  

The purpose behind all of the programs is to put a property back into productive use.

Low taxes great place for newbies to start.

Low priced homes in small populated zip codes.

Martin is speaking on a great topic :-) Andrew, I've heard a lot of great things about David's meetups, so driving up from San Francisco to share about a low-capital way to get into the market.

Other notes: my strategy has been to front-load my capital expenditures such that my SFH's are "new" when I am done - roofs, HVAC, etc - so that my capex line items stay low down the road.

@Shelby Williams I imagine your student loans are at a very low interest rate.

I spoke with the head of Cobb County,  and was told I had a choice to zone back to R-20 or LRO (Low Rise Office).

If you lose out on a months rent it makes other low maintenance flooring much more competative.