After transferring utilities into my name for a newly purchased SFR, Duke Energy patched me over to another division which gave me a "move-in" package, as well as tried to sell me on letting them activate the cable/phone/etc.

If you haven't been to the newly renovated main street, the Convention Center, and the Fox Theater, it's amazing what has been accomplished in a relatively short amount of time.

I just recently joined the Alabama Real Estate Investor Association and we've just newly formed a lending company consisting of hard money lending and private lenders.

HI Henri,IF the property is local to you and very newly built with upscale tenants it could work.Problems happen usually because new projects run into six figures per door in cost.

If you want to read more about our milestones, progress, and my personal journey in launching BiggerPockets, I wrote a more in depth article here:Navigating the Fork in My Real Estate Road (Happy 11th Birthday, BiggerPockets!)

We also had newly minted BP member, @Josh McNicoll, (Yes, we encourage all our MeetUp members to join the BP Community) talking about his experiences in Kansas City, Missouri, and his strategy for vetting properties, getting them inspected, getting pictures taken of them, and working on deals, all from the comforts of his home, 6,500 miles away in Seoul.Overall, we felt it was a great success.

Those interested in the newly coined BRRR strategy should save that post.

in regards to buying from them directly I wouldn't think that is a good idea if you are also trying to rehab one of these properties.Most of these investors are buying and flipping, unless you are looking for a newly remodeled home at top dollar it doesn't sound like the best option, but it really depends on what you are looking for and what you would like to do with it.It also depends on your margins, at the end of the day if the numbers work they work , if they don't then pass.

Most places sell so quickly that a motivated seller's impatience doesn't help you here, though finding places that passed their offer date with no takers can be a way to find newly motivated sellers.  

The net positive cash flow from the rentals are about an annual salary of a newly graduated engineer now.