> Do the hours represent more than one-half of the total personal service hours the taxpayer performed during the year in all trades or businesses?

People have different preferences, so cover your bases.Create Pre-Prepared Scripts: Having templates for common questions allows you to respond faster and more consistently.Leverage Teamwork: If you can’t always respond yourself, delegate initial outreach to an assistant or team member.Track Response Times: Monitor how quickly you or your team responds and set performance goals.Why Responsiveness Outweighs ExperienceMany agents believe that years of experience will win clients.

Since approval is based on the property’s income, not your personal W2, it can let you scale faster without the caps of conventional financing.Cash flow metrics can be stricter—you really need the property to perform on its own—but that’s part of what makes DSCR attractive for long-term holds.

With DSCR lending, the focus shifts from personal financials to property performance.

What kind of move-in inspection do they perform?

A few ways I’ve seen deals get across the finish line without heavy down payments: clear documentation (promissory note + deed of trust), recording the lien properly, and sometimes adding performance clauses that protect the seller if you don’t refi as planned.

A new build needs to perform better than that to make it worth your time, all the risks and capital concentration.thanks for the advice everyone and would be happy to connect with you: @Bryant Brislin @Dave Wells @Leilah Davis @Joshua Stewart I have been building 15 to 20 spec houses a year now for 7 or 8 years..Just curious, generally from start to finish, from closing on buying the land to collecting a check after building the house and after escrow, how long is the process taking you? 

Resident will not authorize any work to be performed without the express written consent of Owner.As the tenant is on a fixed income, and is a single mom with kids (including a toddler in diapers), I ended up telling the tenant to pay $50 per month for 8 months to cover the cost. 

In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make is ASSUMING all PMCs offer the exact SAME SERVICES and PERFORM those services EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.

Echoing a lot of what Carla Gordon shared, MTRs perform exceptionally well in the Texas Medical Center, particularly among operators engaging travel nurses.