When i started out training was what was important to me, learning was more important to me then earning as the first would lead to the latter.When you meet with brokers it is an interview for them as well as you it is important that you can work together and both get what you need from the relationship.Much like investing figure out what your goals are and find a broker who can help you achieve that goal, my Initial broker fees where pretty high for the area (50%) but with that came a wealth of knowledge and 24/7 access to answers i could call my broker (and have) at midnight and she would talk me through whatever i was doing, that was the important part for me.  

@Charlene Stovin. if you are a new Investor / Property Owner, would suggest you engage a competent Real Estate Agent with experience in leasing properties to assist you with the initial lease up. 

Sure, your first month or two owning this home might be a real slump (I don't know about indefinitely - anyone who catches the virus now shouldn't be contagious a month from now, which means we'll probably see waves of people staying home, and then ideally life will return to normalcy after this initial panic), but these atypical circumstances are precisely why real estate investors insist on factoring in vacancy to your cash flow analysis.

Is it in rougher shape then it sounded on the phone - then take more off for repairs (ie an additional $10k so offer $105k initially)Yes, have the contract paperwork with you. 

My initial plan was to invest into multi-family units.

@Dawn Brenengen My initial idea is to use my own money and hard money to fund the purchase and rehab costs.

Hi all, since I’m an overseas investor I’ve been told it’s hard or impossible for me to get a loan, so initially it would seem that BRRRR strategy is out the window.However I know of hard money lending which I believe is short term only, good for flips but not buy and hold. 

Expensify initially looked like a good one?

My initial thoughts are to choose the option that only covers 120, but maybe increase the premises liability to 1million. 

Initial plans are to move out in 2 years and covert it to a full rental.