Small landlord here.  

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I'm about to purchase my first rental property with the backing of an investor.

Only took 30 seconds to find this website, how much effort are you putting into this?

Where could I get in contact with someone like this and what kind of rate should I anticipate they would expect?

Purchase price: $550,000 Cash invested: $1,000 Sale price: $565,000 Joint ventured with another wholesaler in Northern Utah to get this deal done.

how about HOA?

Also, the area of North Austin is interesting to me, can anyone have thoughts about this area (from Georgian Acres to Gracy wood)?

This was posted online.

Does this thread help..see whole threadhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/931120-lookin...