Run your goal and buying criteria by them and (if they’re good) they’ll offer you advise on areas to stay away from, which ones to flock to, property types, as well as offer you connections to great lenders, contractors, and other professionals who will become key members of your “team”.Once you have your goal, team (people), and capital locked down, start looking and putting in offers on places that meet your criteria and ignore ones that dont.To share our story, My wife and I purchased a 6bd 2bth house in Barnum for 480k in Feb.

Like dishes, silverware, towels, toiletries, wifi entry lock and other potential items.

I dont know much about self storage so probably shouldn't be commenting at all... but, even though its 'self' storage, isn't there a level of management that can take time...with a number of units, inevitably dealing with people to check it out, sign contract, move out, deal with locked out with no keys, etc etc.

I didn't see the 400k limit listed anywhere in the other thread:https://www.biggerpockets.com/... and then Bigger Pockets locked the thread and sent out an email to all their users about it.

@Dave Wittnauer Consider the opinions here as I don't know your situation but from a lender's perspective 1 year leases are EASIER to lock down financing from an investment property loan perspective but depends on who is buying and who is underwriting the loan. 

I'm a loan officer, from my perspective a few strong suggestions:1) Identify that you are doing this EARLY in the process - before we've locked the rate, before disclosures go out, before the appraisal is ordered.

cash out refi to lock in today's rate... heloc's rates are variable. keep the home, use the cash to fund your next deal, smaller margins on profit on the initial property but now you have equity appreciation on both

Looking for Realtor to help with docs and have the locks changed.  

It is one of the unfortunate things about the real estate industry, data is locked behind a paywall. 

This is a fantastic time to lock in a 30-year rate.