There are many lenders in this forum that will finance the whole rehab, and 80% of the purchase price.Now what about the remaining 20%, if you don’t have the capital your best bet is to partner with an investor and the share that you will provide is your labor.

So, I do agree with hedging your bets and serving a notice to pay or quit.The issue with them not paying rent and you using the security deposit is that they have zero incentive to clean the unit and if they damage it, you have no additional funds.If it were me, I'd serve them an eviction notice and then mark them as owing on a credit reporting site(I use Front Lobby).

He probably knows the area as well as anyone on here! 

“This is a lease violation; continued issues will result in formal notices.”After that, the 10-day notice comes out if they keep it up—judges like seeing you gave them fair warning first.I’d bet money you won’t have to go past step two once they realize there’s a paper trail leading to court if needed.And maybe… retire the trash barrel idea :) 

I'm looking for a mentor as well.

Job growth solid - do not see that happening. 4% incresase - I would bet the under on that all day long

If I couldn't afford for it to lose money I'd be in trouble with it, but it's 10 minutes from my father's house and serves well for large family get togethers. 

It also helps prevent surprises at tax time and keeps your financials lender-ready year-round.I use QuickBooks Online for my flipping and rental businesses, as well as for our bookkeeping clients.

AppFolio helps you to store all information of your properties in one place however the one thing that we struggled with is accounting.

And generate some responses here as well.