Interest rate and equity ownership can all be negotiated, however does anyone have a guideline to follow that is fair?  

So I am fairly new to Real Estate Investing just got started about 2 months ago have my LLC and team in place and growing.

I would if you have not already walk into the planning department in your fair city and ask at the counter whats allowed.

Atlanta on the other hand it's not so straightforward.

Well, in fairness, it wasn't really a guru and the seminar was free.

@Ariel Goldenberg,Just my opinion ...Unless the asking price was significantly below fair market value (FMV), you were doomed from the outset.

I guarantee if you make at least 5 calls to FSBOs a day you will have a deal within weeks if not days.The opening call is pretty straight forward and to the point.1.

@Daniel Gonzalez's approach also isn't crazy.You can mix them:If you find a deal on redfin/mls/whatever, you're using that agent for doing normal agent things and they earned their check.If you find it on your own, or if another agent brings you that deal and sells it to you, that means they closed the sale and earned that check.Your primary go-to person needs to be exactly one agent at a time to be fair.

Most of the negative things I've heard stem from the fact about 70% of the residents in the areas are renters vs. homeowners and the market is flooded/competitive for rentals (I've looked up some numbers and they do seem to be roughly in that range).My thought process (I'm a newbie, but still) is that if the place has decent PM or self-management and is priced fairly it will rent *shrugs*.

Greetings BP,I am a fairly new investor and the problem I am running into, is finding a contractor to do complete or partial rehabs.