When I asked for "good" agents / brokers, I meant someone has actually used them and had good experience with them.

You can always call a local insurance agent and get a price on a landlord policy for a property, you may have to make some assumptions but again, it is a what if to get you closer to actual numbers.

Hi Kate,As usual, to give actual, real professional advice on your floor choice, a bit more info is needed. 

With my last 80 posts, I probably have had 5 times more PM and actual conversations with other investors than the other 250+ posts that I have made over the past couple of years!

If you actually calculate that ROI, you will likely lose track of decimal places and not be sure if it's 100%, 1000%, or 10,000%.You'd be surprised what Fannie/Freddie will finance, that people don't even realize.

Jeremy Hunter, I'm actually looking for C class properties in B neighborhoods.

The ONLY way your gonna find deals is to have a marketing budget and to actually market to potential sellers.

Too many people pay $30k for a guru to tell them everything, but if you can "sacrifice" $10-$20k of potential profit, you will have real-world experience, relationships AND the ability to go to private money or bank financing with and actual track record.

How do they actually make the trip from point A to point B?  

In our project actuals there was  ~8K in costs that would not have occurred if we did not have to clean-up after the pets.