Not sure if this is the right form for literature recommendations, regardless...Looking for good reads covering Realestate Investing, Refurbishing Homes, Assessing home values, and ANYTHING ELSE You feel would be beneficial to someone working towards financial freedom.

Take photos of the issues.then you find the owners on the county assessor site, and send them a personal letter and pic of the property saying you drove past and noticed this house, that you were not sure if anyone was living there but you were interested in buying the property. while you are sending out these letters you should try and find any of the following:private money, hard money, flipping partners, landlords, cash buyers, etcyou can find these people on BP, or go to a title company and ask who has been buying in that area for cash over the last couple years, you could ask your family members, etc.Now when you get calls back from the homes you drove by, you already have the exit strategies. anyway, that was a condensed version of driving for dollars so if you have any questions about that, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else here on BPAdam Adams

(I'm planning on using hard money+my HELOC to Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat..)He won't pass any tenant screening tests, that's for sure, but I feel like I could probably structure a deal that gives him enough cash at closing to put 12 months of rent into escrow up front.  

We all have different strengths and things to bring to the table (I've done wholesale/option deals/Licensed | Partner A: Mobile home investor/note investor | Partner B: Wholesaler/Licensed/ Small portfolio...) but....As of right now, things have slumped, and we have no idea what to do now or what the next step is We market by: 1,000 pieces of mail a week (Which BARELY converts to anything, we get more calls asking to get removed from the list than leads.), scrubbing the public records for notice of defaults (a list you have to manually do as our county doesn't have the records online), bandit signs (but 3 wholesale players have entered our market and take down every sign we put up), door knocking (Which takes up too much time).

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

If anyone knows any CPA that might be able to help answer this, please feel free to tag them.

If you discovered something, bring it up to the seller and ask for a credit/price reduction. 

Otherwise you can always talk to investors and call for rent signs, to me doing that just feels more accurate since you're getting it from the source (or one of the sources).Best of luck,JTM

Looking to bring in $600-1000 after expenses.

Which brings me to ask..