Phone screening before showing will cut way back on your qualified tenants, because some otherwise qualified tenants will be annoyed or offended by the grilling before they've even seen the unit.

I have a full time job so I don't need the money but have always been fascinated with the idea of flipping properties and renting them.

If they are literally identical fourplexes, you'd just cut your negotiated purchase price in half and hand the lender two signed contracts, one for each.

My day job is a commercial insurance wholesale broker specializing in hard to place real estate schedules. 

We where in our early 20's with new jobs.

Assuming you have a decent job and reasonable credit score, you should definitely be able to secure better terms through regular conventional financing.

In my experience, when a person needs to be evicted nothing else will do the job.

Fred, "Thumbtack" is an app I used on my first deal and have recommended to people where you can post what you need done and local people bid on the job.

-Family owned-great pricing-great time management -Always Gets the job done with my properties-Licensed contractor, legal and legit.

I've got a large project and both of the guys that I work with our tied up with other jobs atm.