They'll charge something like half of first months rent.

I am in the process of refi my VA loan, and the closing cost are taking up almost half of the equity.

That was due to working with a contractor who was being paid a full time wage but only worked half the hours, plus some material wastage. 38k in labour and 20k in materials.

(here are some links to BiggerPockets blog posts )27 Ways to Find Off-Market & Wholesale Real Estate Deals: Offline55 Resources to Find Real Estate Deals Online35 Relationships To Help You Find More Houses To Flip or WholesaleYou’ll need to buy those in cash, whether your own money, private money, or hard money.To make $20,000 on a property you’ll need to spend at least $150,000 per project, so you’ll need access to $150,000 X 5 = $750,000.The easiest way to get this money is via a hard money lender, but you’ll generally need to come up with 30% of the cash and you’ll need to be able to show that you can pay the monthly payments.This is where your job will come in handy, in 2 ways. 1) You need to be able to make the payments; 2) Your specific job gives you a ton of credibility with hard money lenders showing them that you know what to do and how to manage a project.Hope that helps!

It’s free as well you’d just need to know their cellular carrier ans schedule it in your email application (I find gmail easiest).

If you want that, move to Russia.Myself, I am vacationing in Cape Cod at the end of May and I've already paid my first half for the week of $2500. 

Personal income requirements are not strained by neutral CF during this period of time... the high cash flow will be happily usable in the later half of the investment period after liabilities are completely shrunk.

Purchase price: $110,000 Cash invested: $100,0001939 and 1930 historic homes I restored and rent, The two story is now AirBnB and the bonus is that half of the large lot is empty.

The half dozen big time individual investors that I know in Los Angeles, also, own large management companies that can profit off of excess capacity by managing other owners(especially institutional owners) assets.I would not be surprised if most management companies also owned or were actively trying to acquire assets, too.But, if you are an insurance company or pension trust administrator, you would probably not want to be managing the day to day operations of multi-family even if it makes a great addition to the trust portfolio.It depends of the specific scenario of the owner/s

I had my contractor cut it in half and remove it.