Would love to hear where you all go to swap ideas or find investor leads (except for the BP forums). 🙌  Super old school and not very efficient but I've been having a ton of success 1 on 1.

You don’t have to do all of these, but you do need to do quite a few to become a roaring success in real estate investing.

Asking lenders/investors: what’s your go-to method for checking payment history and verifying collections data before a purchase?

@Elton John - I'd go to Star Hardware in Hartford and ask them who buys a lot of windows from them and see if they can give you a phone number.  

Not a real estate agent, but I have been lending to investors and commercial borrowers for over 30 years.

Would love to hear more of your plans or area you are looking into building in. build to rent is financially the best way to go.

If the attached property is RSA-5 and you want to go to 3-4 residential units it will be a use variance anyway, you couldn't go to 3-4 residential units by right.

I am also working to get this all over to the FBI as well right now.

One is a dealer that buys land and places homes on them once entitled. covering all of Central Florida, the other does mostly the same, but is not a dealer.Let me know more about your strategy, are you looking for land and then hoping to go to a dealer and do it all yourself, buy old homes already on land and place new ones..?  

My question is, should I focus on paying off my debt which is credit cards and a car loan roughly about $20,000 in total and go to the closing table with no debt with enough for closing cost and a little bit in reserves or should I focus on saving more for closing costs and reserves and go to the closing table with more cash in the bank account?