Start smaller, the financing will be easier.

Is the reporting easier?

A cleaning may help.

The owners might still be living in the property as holdover tenants, the property might be vacant but have valuable property the owners are using for storage and eviction has to happen, or the house is totally vacant and needs to be trashed out and cleaned and winterized depending on time of the year and climate.During this time the bank or asset company is having the broker that is to be assigned the listing complete a free BPO and then they also order 1 to 2 other bpo's that pay other brokers directly to do for an objective third party evaluation.

Offer them some $ to clean the house and allow the showings.

If it appears lazy or is more yellow in color, clean orifice where gas comes out.

The larger the bank the more likely they are to blow yo off and say "watch for when it is listed"You will be better served by moving on and finding an easier deal.

Welcome,Maybe start out slow when it comes to real estate versus your current occupation / fieldMeaning use your medical field connections( watch doctors, nurses, and etc wanting to invest into your newly performing real estate business )FYI - Having a good paying employment will make it a lot easier to obtain loans and refinancing network deal after deal

I think you need to manage a property manager, which can be cumbersome and expensive for just a couple of SFR's.Lending is much easier, and is fairly easy to make sure you don't make a mistake and do something prohibited.

Our cleaning service comes every Tuesday, so I make sure the house is picked up so they can do a deep cleaning.