If you are looking for rental investment, well then 90% of the work is making sure you have appropriate leverage and making sure the strategy works, so it doesn't really matter when/where you go; only how much money you can make!

In order to leverage a relationship with a realtor as a wholesaler you need to: * Develop a good rapport.Rapport simply means the "relationship between persons".

@Raj ParwaniWhen performing analysis for BRRRR, you have to make sure the numbers still work with leverage.

Though your leverage is reasonable at 70%, your words indicate that your cash flow is not quite strong enough to comfortably endure decreases in rent.  

I am sure that Auction.com is getting paid for their service and that is why they add them to their marketing @Wayne Brooks, it is just another stream of revenue for auction.com leveraging the existing platform that they have already built.I have also seen houses lately hit auction.com barely two months past the sheriff sale (now as REOs), but they are pre mls and auction.com does not charge a buyers fee (no co-broker involved), I have bid on a number of those (usually tracked by me from the pre foreclosure stage), but never overpay so someone always outbids me lately on these open platform auction sites.Good Luck to you!!!

My question: should I put a large sum of cash in my LLC, then try to get a loan for the first rental that way (I'm a fan of leveraging vs. cash)? 

Say you just bought a 75 unit for 1.5M with 80% leverage (300k down) and then you leverage the LOC to rehab the property for 900k and keep another 350k on the side in case something comes up.

They don't care about leveraging or optimizing their returns.

I don't by any means think this is anything new but wanted to share for those that may have forgot about leverage equity in an owned property to access capital for the next investment.  

it depends on what you want from your investments. if you want to increase your monthly income, i would leverage with debt and acquire more properties.