It could potentially be a great platform for all of us to share best practices or pain points that we inevitably deal with as a landlords, but why deal with it alone? 

@Emily Refi checking back in with the post, I've gotten in contact with local lenders and they are all telling me the same things which leads me to believe finding the right lender with good financials as @Ned Carey mentioned will be most important.

What about some of the other leading indicators in your local markets?

One of the Atlanta area gurus  always preached borrowing as much as possible in the years leading up to 2007 crash.

It depends on what you want, if you want to be almost 100% independent and earn the max commission a cloud broker might be best if you need guidance and/ or leads and are willing to give on commission for it a more traditional option may be a better fit.

I'm assuming he will want you to bring leads that you two can potentially work on together in some fashion. 

I am out of state (Hawaii) and the research I have done so far has lead me to believe Orlando is a good market for what I am trying to do.

Hi everyone, I am curious as to how many of you are using RVM strategies to bring more leads into your business.

Then we had really bad rain, it caused a leak, which lead to a few pieces of dry wall getting mold so we fixed the leak, treated the mold and replaced the drywall. 

That will leave that amount more each month for you to save and lead to more investments.