By day I run a Venture backed software company and by night/weekend I invest and rehab income properties, primarily single family but interested in multi-family.  

We're getting the first duplex at a discount now since they want to be done w/ the showings and the ups and downs of selling.  

The cool thing about buying properties at a discount and rehabbing/renting before the refinance (BRRRR) is that there should be a good amount of equity built in, or forced rather, during the rehab stage. 

Have software that can help you with rehab cost estimates if you're interested.

Start with only a few thousand dollars, and use wholesaling to develop a deep discount business model to build cash and locate the best properties to flip or become rentals at the best possible price,2.

But investors have to push past the glossy pages of the selling agent's brochures.Best discounts are in the more desperate seller market.

If in an LLC you do need software though.

I structure my leases with a built in discount for early payment.

Sounds like you're losing out on rent for September, October, and November, plus have a difficult task ahead of you to get the apartment back in shape to sell, or may need to offer a discount to the buyer.

Adam, one piece of advice would be to leave your check book and credit cards at home.Every free seminar I've even been to has been an upsell to a seminar that does cost money, and/or a book/tape course and/or (the trend seems to be toward) a coaching program that has either a big up-front cost or a monthly ongoing fee.If you would like to go study how a salesman pitches a room of people however, it will probably be a great case study in sales techniques, especially the last 15-30 minutes where they really ratchet up the sales techniques.You'll get to see all the techniques like getting the audience to agree with simple statements to build rapport, presenting the "total cost" and then "slashing" it for a "today only discount", the old classic "limited time only, while supplies last" and its variant "for the first ___ people at the back of the room", etc.I've gotten good value out of seminars over the years.