I'm a member of 3 Atlanta area REIAs.Can't agents pull statistics of days on market and number of sales etc from an area?

If you feel good about the local area, I'd pull the trigger on that deal all day long.

Showings were going ok but either nobody I wanted was pulling the trigger or else the people that did pull the trigger just didn't fit what I wanted there (income, job history, etc).It was a week before xmas and somebody asked me about doing a 6 month lease.

You can use a list provider like Listsource to get you a list of absentee owners or if you have MLS access you can pull the list yourself.

I wonder if there are any other, better solutions?...

But;Even if your computer is already on, by the time you pull up your software program and begin to enter a loan amount, I will have the solution on my BAII !

The pictures only show one unit and you have to walk all of them as usually they show the best one to pull you in.

Looked into conventional but can't finance the construction upgrades, and would need 25% down on non-owner occupy investment property + reno, or about $100k to pull it off.

I am close to pulling the trigger on Excalliber as well.

Marie Poe gave you a great example.When I approach this type of situation I like to have more in depth info before I propose solutions to the seller. ( sellers expectations, wants & needs, current rent, market rent, expenses, existing loan balance & terms etc.)It would be cool if this transaction could be done using your IRA (or someone else's) to buy an option.