I have a select number of direct commercial lenders that I deal with and I don’t shop deals.

There are 2 other houses in the neighborhood that are for sale that has been on the market for about 2 months now.

I've got little to no experience with the lease option/RTO pretty houses in nice neighborhoods or the landlord business in general.

The time to shop for bargains is now.

Sorry for the bold text guys, force of habit :oops: By prestige I mean I am more in the high end markets with top hotels, casinos and shopping malls etc.

Nice quiet neighborhood [as told by realtor].

They say that the rents will be 695$ a month for each apt which I am not sure about..for this area these rents are about 100 too high...but they say that the area is changing...but maybe they can only get 600$.....the area used to be a bit more degraded but they just got a new shopping center and all sorts of stuff like that so it seems to be going up...I have never bought anything before and would also like a house...I have a total of about 300,000 cash.

A new Costco and shopping mall with major dept stores has just been built within a mile of the location.

I found a home for sale in the same neighborhood I grew up in.

I still have a couple realtors looking for me, but I have decided to try direct marketing to select neighborhoods that I am targeting by sending a "we buy homes" letter.