For motivated seller leads, they are terrible!

If the contractor has bad credit and no money, he likely does not possess great management skills either, although this is not necessarily true.I do think that giving a contractor a slice of the deal is a great way to motivate them to work hard on your project.

Thanks for your time.Late to the party here, fellow Towsonite and highly recommend Towson for a place to live, but buy and hold numbers are nearly impossible to achieve positive cash flow.As what has been said, retail home buyers snatch properties up quick.

Hopefully the threat of ruined credit and garnished wages will provide sufficient motivation.

@Reagan George bird dogging would just be finding motivated sellers.

I will look into getting the property management license and she’s been working on her brokers license so we should be fine once those are achieved front what I have learned. 

My goal is to achieve enough cashflow to be able to semi-retire from a highly lucrative W2 job and focus on business ( both in real estate and non-RE) more fulltime.

I am highly motivated and obsessed as of late to achieving these goals.

This could be a strong motivator for them returning to work of some sort.

It's going to be hard to achieve the appreciation rates of years past when growing supply at 3-4% per year.