Property values have spiked in the area along with rising rental rates.

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Account Closed got to watch those animals,  one mama squirrel chewed up all the windows in one apartment for us. 

I highly doubt he is building homes in Texas from his self imposed exile to Portugal to excape massive litigation that was/is coming his way.He is a marketing guy and receives a commission for referring you to the builder developer who actually owns the properties.. at least that was his SOP in the past. 

They were fairly highly rated, and performed well on my extensive screening interview (we went over an hour).

I put in a little work developing a high level scope of work, assigning values and 3 resulting estimates so that I can not only determine what I think it will cost but what the best and worst case scenarios likely are.

@Andrew Freed I did a material estimate and on the high side I expect to put around 38k into the rehab.

I'm graduating High School in a month and I want to get straight into Real Estate, I'm 17 so until I'm 18 I'm unable to get my real estate license (though its not needed in the state of FL for assigning contracts) and I don't have an LLC that would allow me to sign REI documents. 

With this last round of insurance increases we are paying almost $50 per month per apartment.

So, a decent deal is likely to get better over the long run. given the high amount of cash needed for brrrr do you feel it would be better to start with a long term rental as an initial investment that has less risk involved