I know many will fight me on this (most of those many will have a DMM marketing company that desperately need you to believe lists are good so they can make money).Lists are saturated, they are expensive and no list really targets motivation.Lists are calculated luck.Its like you needing to hit a small target in a small room and you have a shotgun.

Then Maria hit.

It isn't the greatest of areas and it has a nickname of hard hitting new britain for a reason. 

Don’t try flipping from your soloK plan, you will get hit with UBTI (Tax) and you can not work on or in your project as the owner of the retirement account, that is a prohibited transaction.Combine your savings and either hard money, private money, seller financing, or a financial partner to get the rest.

If your home is worth $150k+ you likely won't hit the 1% rule and won't cash flow.

I am finding that the prices and rents have increased very disproportionately so that it's hard to hit the 50% number.

The mortgage industry tapped out due to capacity issues, no one in mortgage said "man we need to staff up in case we get hit with a global pandemic" a year ago, and as a result no one is staffed for this.

We already have NEGATIVE interest rates in multiple countries, and the US treasury rates just hit new historic lows courtesy of coronavirus. 

I live in Ankeny, so hit me up and let's talk

We ended having to fix the foundation after a year of ownership :( had we not had the rental I don’t think we could have weathered that hit.