Even if you personally have just a modicum of design aesthetic sensibility, after reviewing 20 or 30 properties, you will quickly be able to get a sense of the winners.My 2 cents,Mike

@Diego L.That's actually an interesting situation and a case where revocable trust may make sense.

It cash flows without the utilities split but I am planning to hold onto for a long time so splitting the utilities seems to make sense.

there's a tremendous demand for inventory - both primary residences and rentals - and so buyers are willing to accept lower yield than a lot of us think makes sense. 

Ideally, I’d stick with a single market, but the numbers in Houston didn’t make sense anymore, and I didn’t want to buy another short-term rental.

Hope that makes sense. 

So there are definitely times when owner financing makes sense. 

Use those keywords that make sense to populate the keywords you're targeting. 3.

It would be a good idea to assess your tolerance to risk and then plan something like that, but using a heloc is going to be around 9-11% in this market so to pay something off with lower interest rate to borrow more might not make much sense.

Hope all of that makes sense but feel free to post with anything else.