Unless the property is brand new you will have improvements to make at one point or another and if you don't have cash reserves you will get yourself in trouble.

However, there's been a large influx of out-of-state lenders over the past couple years, and you can somewhat easily get a hard money loan, even as a brand new investor, for around 9% and 1.5-2pts these days for a 1-yr loan.At the same time, I've invested in 8 other states; my cheapest purchase was a $22k property in PA. 

We generally pay 5500-6000 for a brand new oil furnace up here in New England. 

Be professional in all communication - if you are going to be building a brand for yourself you want to be known as a professsional. 

Overall, my rationale for these filters is that as long as the unit has 2 BR and 2 Bathrooms, the rental comps should be comparable.

Brand new roof in September.

Oh and I would suggest looking into Shannon Ludlow's brand new podcast.

There are brand new companies that started marketing themselves within the last few years and again, they’ve operated in the greatest real estate boom and their marketing is ahead of what they can actually produce as far as results are concerned and again, you should be able to beat their results on your own.  

Hello my name is Craig Jennings and I'm a brand new investor in the San Fernando valley area.

I'm brand new to the Real Estate Investing world, along with 2 other members (my younger brother and brother in law), through an LLC based out of NJ.