Solid strategy.

There are good investment properties in the tougher areas and as always the execution of your property management strategy and resident placement is key. 

It's nice when it does, sure, but in most cases it takes years of saving and investing LOTS OF YOUR OWN MONEY to start.Once you have some cash in the game there's plenty of stuff you can do to generate more money, like BRRRR, selling properties that have appreciated, more targeted flips done with your money to raise more money, working with hard-money lenders using your real estate as security, and the list gets longer and longer the more properties you have and the more experienced you become.But the number of people who get into this at first through wholesaling and flipping and successfully make money at these two no-money-down strategies, enough to move on to buying investment properties with the cash their business generates, is really quite small in most markets.

Depending on the size of the loan it will likely be a community bank (typically less than $1 Billion in Assets) or maybe a regional bank (typically in the < $10 Billion asset range).You have to have a financing exit strategy.

None of that would matter if your client was buying or controlling property using Seller financing, leases, options, or subject to purchases.Commercial lending is great, but should not be anyone's only strategy as it restricts scalability.

The key from my perspective, is identifying an attractively priced deal, having the feasible and well-thought out strategy, incorporating talented and reliable trades, and presenting the information to investors through a comprehensive presentation.You are already in the right place.

We are a investor only General Contracting company, on top of being RE Investors and Landlords ourselves which allows us to specialize in maximizing our clients returns through different strategies. 50% of our current client load is out of state so we are very much set up to communicate and run financials through our Project management software.

I wanted to reach out to the forum and ask people their personal experiences with deciding on which market(s) to focus their investment strategy on.

I would like to hear what is needed on the market via CRM and Marketing strategies side of things and re-adjust my plan.

This is why I would never throw the rental arbitrage strategy out the window...."