They are also boosting the shelter system and trying to offer more drug/mental health treatment services among many other strategies to try and combat many different causes of the problem.   

I have clients that bought in Alamo and the property came with fully paid off solar and the sellers told us how their average electricity bill was sub-$20/mo ... for my clients, this was nice but played zero role in either deciding to make an offer on the place or what price to offer.

I also don’t want to waste a contractor’s time walking properties that I know I’m not going to offer on during my learning period, so are there any good rules of thumb for estimating rehab?

Hi there,My business partner and I have been exploring some areas of Charlotte, particularly southeast/Matthews/Pineville area, but we're open to hearing about other areas of Charlotte as well.We were curious if anyone had experience in these ZIPs or had any additional ZIPs to offer that work well for buy and hold/BRRR properties.

I look forward to connecting with this community and learning from the resources BP has to offer.  

He mentioned seeing if my current PM would be willing to offer any incentives for managing more than one property, but I have no idea how to go about asking that.

No national lender seems to offer this and my credit union doesn't do anything like it either. 

I had to offer full recession to all the investors and send out that document.. for us we only had one or two rescind but again its was very stressful.. 

My friend recommended I join this site and use all the amazing tools and resources it has to offer - so here I am today. 

IF you can find an investor friendly park there are however many owners willing to offer lease to own options which can represent a low cost entry point for you.