Legal fees.Accounting fees.Lost rent due to a lengthy eviction.Tenant damage above the security deposit.Utilities, at least when its vacant.Capital items (e.g., appliances, carpets, furnaces, roofs, etc.)Speaking of carpets, new carpets every 3-5 years.Property management.Make ready costs.

I have been using the wholesale strategy for about 5 months now but i cannot seem to find any deal i had two contracts but both fell through and now all I have to invest is about 50 bucks please tell me some free too low cost marketing methods to find motivated sellers thanks!

If you buy a house to rent out you will inevitably need a slush fund to pay for the unexpected hot water heater failure, etc.Once you get a few wholesale deals under your belt you will understand the market better, have met a number of other investors(check out your local REIA to meet them) you can learn from, and better understand alternative methods of investing to move forward.Keep asking questions and reading posts on BP and you'll have a wealthe of knowledge.

Fake property manager hired a cheap hand (again, no professional certification, no social security number), who did some work but cost damage to the property.

Then add a good umbrella policy for added security.

At the point the down payment has been secured in full they get a mortgage for your asking price and become the deed holder also....Kudos,Mary

For occupancy they can look at last 2 years tax returns from the 4506T form the borrower signed, they can pull nationally any properties owned by the borrower and spot check for tax billing vs property addresses and other methods.

The more you understand about conventional business finance, the easier it will be for you to understand the unconventional finance methods you will encounter in REI.Although you will see some people on here and elsewhere who use all kinds of formulas to analyze RE deals, it's really not any harder than 5th grade math.

Finances: I'd like to secure a bridge loan to get me comfortably through the final push of the project.

Even if you run the economics only out to 10 years and assuming zero appreciation and 60% expenses, the numbers are pretty eye popping so everybody wanted in.I already had a Texas series LLC for Deal #1 so I simply opened a new series, collected the funds, and closed on the purchase.The loan route is not much more difficult once you find a willing private lender, all you need is a promissory note and a pledge & security agreement.