Invest out of state where you can actually have control over your property and not live under the crushing weight of red tape. 

This opens up the main function "communication" where the loan officer loses control of the loan/file and has to wait on another employee who logs in a 9PM and logs out at 5PM. 

I’m a licensed realtor and investor based in California, and I work closely with builders and investors who do both fix & flips and new construction projects.From what I’ve seen, your decision between flipping and building often comes down to speed vs. scalability:Fix & flips can get you quicker returns and experience dealing with lenders, contractors, and resale dynamics.New builds take longer and require more capital upfront, but once your systems and subs are dialed in, the margins (and control) can be much higher.If you’re already comfortable with the building side, you might even do hybrid projects — like buying older homes on good lots, doing heavy remodels or additions, and building equity fast.I’d be happy to connect and share what’s been working for investors around Folsom and greater Sacramento right now.

. - when wholesaling, it is most effective to find off-market deals so that you can be direct to the seller and have more control over the deal. 

Emergency repairs in the dead of winter or the middle of summer are expensive and I hate seeing a brand new $1500 control board going into a 36 year old furnace, which makes no sense.

Hey all,I’m toying with an idea and wanted to get some real feedback from people actually in the trenches.I know most of us don’t want/need a full property manager (8–12% of rent is steep, and a lot of us still want to keep control).

If the condition is similar to the market average but your rent is severely under market rate then I take an average between the current rent and the market rent and send them the following message 2 months before their lease is up (assuming you aren't in a rent control market),Dear Tenant,Some nice words and remind them that their lease is up within 2 months, please select the following options about their new lease, also mention that you are doing the best you can to maintain the rent as low as possible but with inflation, insurance and property taxes increasing, you have to raise the rent to keep up with the rising expenses. 1.

When I say negative cash flow I mean after considering normal occurrences like vacancy, expenses like pest control, turnover costs, capital expense and many others. 

There are ways to structure agreements, screen properly, and design your process so you stay in control of your asset.

The obvious to choices would be between smarter contact and launch control, however, I would like to know if anyone has tried any other platforms besides those two that allow importing cold lists from other softwares like propstream.