Purchase price: $85,000 Cash invested: $85,000 10 acres Vacant Land in PA's Act 319 (Clean and Green) at the last traffic light before the Blue Mountain Ski Resort.

Don't sign until you know they're squeaky clean.

It does get easier though, down to a routine: it will get to the point that you will write several contracts at a time and see which ones will work out.If you can have a mentor that can help you in the beginning phase, that will definitely jump start your real estate career: you will be more confident and reassured.

.- I think Bret Snodgrass takes it a step further and actually closest, cleans up the property and then markets to his buyers which is a great process as well, but require way more capital and comes with a lot of risk.- wholesaling as I described it can be great, and there is “less risk” but if you jump into it because you think it’s easy, and you have no experience and you don’t work backwards you’re taking the most risk by risking your reputation so Then both sellers and buyers don’t trust you

Cabinets, a classic style-shaker with simple pulls/handles (the more detail, the more dirt builds up and is hard to clean). 

I put in new floors, repainted the walls, redid the bathrooms and cleaned up the exterior.

These are the risks of flipping, especially OOS.You have two options - dump the house, take a loss, and loose your friends ... or invest in making the house right and trying again.First, how much money do you think it would take to close the permits and clean up the half-*** work?  

Make sure the tenants moved everything away from the windows for easy access and make sure the contractors do not leave a mess and clean up at the end of the day. 

Do they do the cleaning, checking in/out like hotel staff so I won't have to worry about anything except the repair/replace bill?

A good title company will not let the transaction happen without clean title.