I have a good relationship with her and she knows my wife and I really love her home.

I have a good relationship with her and she knows my wife and I really love her home.

It is definitely better to have direct relationships with sellers but while you are building that pipeline this is an easy way to get the ball rolling. 

We have talked about hiring virtual assistants to handle a lot of the smaller tasks we could offload so that we could focus on increasing the quality of our relationships with our brokers, finding/analyzing more deals, raising capital and our weekly podcast we started a few weeks ago.

There might be some potential here for seller financing if you have a chance to build some relationship with the seller.

Hard to see the downside to this if the numbers work with the current income, assuming it's consistent and not depending on the same families coming year in and out due to the relationship with the host.

For example, Wells Fargo has relationship discount where for every $250k asset you move to WF bank account, you get your rate reduced by 0.125%.You might just save yourself $10k but just a simple askExtra Tip 2: Credit Hard PullMany people are worried about hurting the credit scores by having too many lenders hard pull your credits.

Eventually you'll find someone you can either work with and learn from, or someone you can have enough of a relationship you can model what they're doing to increase your chance of success.99% of people who successfully get started and make a habit of investing in real estate got started because they found someone they could learn from, who is already investing.

AFTER you have established a relationship with them and you know, like and trust them. 

What I wrote above does not create an attorney/client relationship between us.