@Clay Warinner - What Voicemail Drop Services have you seen which are equipped with a built in DNC list free of charge? 

If you do buy those properties, do you keep the current equipment or do you have a strategy to make it better?

My profession is a heavy equipment operator in excavation.  

Purchase price: $120,000 Cash invested: $400,000 Sale price: $300,000 5,000 SQFT 2 Story Historic Brick Building. 2 Apartment newly renovated. 1 Gift Shop, 1 Restaurant w/ Bar, 1 Office area, All Restaurant and Equipment included plus tables and POS system.

Even though I stated my requirements carefully, there were a lot of people seeking day work, people with no equipment, people who seemed very flaky, and almost noone with an actual landscaping company.

Find a realtor you like working with, educate your realtor, equip them with the right underwriting software/process, connections to local vetted GCs, and a detailed breakdown of your criteria and stick with them as they stick with you.

As someone who deals with pool equipment failures, and landscaping water leaks and keeping a gas BBQ spic and span for every guest, I would highly recommend looking into condos and townhouses over SFRs.With the HOA taking care of the pool and the grounds, and with a good STR cleaning service (I can recommend one) you could manage this from afar and potentially skip paying a management company to do it for you.

Again, you'll learn the complexities of it, what makes a good manager and be better equipped to hire one when you need one)

Once you get to a stage that you are well equip and bag the expertise in your niche, you have to learn to use other people's talent (OPT).

@Evan AlexakosToday’s investors should be equipped with not one but several financing options before approaching a deal.