To whom this may concern, I am an investor looking to buy my second property.

What you describe sounds a little like a BRRRR (Buy Rehab Rent Refinance Repeat). 

Please see the rough numbers below :Tear down house price 350k,Construction cost 165 sqft * 2 build=627k too much for the land unless your exit is 3 million. don't reinvent the wheel. no single family home builder is paying 300k for land. that's miami florida prices where I live. we buy land 50k and under in Columbus Ohio. keep land at less than 10% of after built value.

Hello, looking to potentially use a hard money lender in NJ. Can anyone recommend some stand up lenders I can speak to? Also if any NJ agents that are familiar with using these and transitioning out of them can reach ...

Would also love to connect with experienced Cleveland rental investors.Much Thanks Cleveland is one of the few markets in the USA where buying stuff with the 2% rule is still feasible in 2023.

I assume you are asking about buying the property itself.

It's a competitive market and most of the people that get in trouble here are ones that buy blindly without actually figuring out the numbers, etc.You'd be surprised the number of times I get asked after month one if their electric bill of $xxx or whatever is normal, and the thought running through my head is "how did you not  check things like that before you committed half a million dollars to something?"

You can get a much better return on your investment elsewhere and with $500k you can buy 3 homes or a 4 unit.  

They send me mailers wanting to buy my properties. 

If you can solve their problem, you can usually buy the house.When you are a new wholesaler, the best thing you can do is to get some reps calling and looking for another wholesaler in the area, before you put your own money down on it.