How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

So I guess I'm looking for help to tools to find the first one.

You may be able to do the repairs yourself, but I'd encourage you to get the professional pest company to guarantee their work on stopping the termite issue.And, as others have said, depending on what the inspector finds, you can try to renegotiate with the Seller, ask for a credit, or choose to walk away from the deal.

Are you facing challenges with your current financing strategy?

I've found that what I value most in regards to real estate investing are the people who know about actual home repair and can approach a sale from that perspective.

So we can't see the list but I will say that AirDNA can be accurate or not depending on the area.Like any algorithm, the more data points, the more accurate it will be (relatively).I find it to be quite optimistic.

One try to find an out of state investor for it or two, I'd just drop the $250,000+ to renovate and rent it out.

It turned out the whole thing was a bit of a scam - the "lender" took a huge up front fee ($4,000) to do the deal - so it turned out they weren't really the lender... they were acting more like a broker...while it wasn't said this way, it appeared to be "after you pay us $4,000, we'll try to go and find you a loan."  

Finding a marginal cash-flowing SFR in a decent neighborhood in SD is challenging as well. 

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