You ran your numbers in reverse (I'm impressed) to arrive at your max offer...and max mortgage (big thing many gloss over). 

Hi @Isaac Chun - how did you arrive at the monthly income and how did you arrive at the purchase price? 

Greetings to all! As a novice investor, I’d like to mitigate risk as much as possible.My questions; Is the RE market cooling down? Is this considered a market correction? Sure, I can buy and hold... but what if the RE...

. , once we arrive in the USA ( will be living in Charlotte NC initially) , we will have NO ACCESS TO CREDIT for at least two years until we build up our credit history  in the US ( credit histories don't transfer abroad).

The assistance is a wonderful thing - arrives like clockwork.The inspections highlight issues with the property I think a landlord should address anyway and I haven't found them onerous.  

I have a general idea since I have prior management skills however   things were already in place when I arrive but I would like to know how to build my maintenance team from a business perspective.  

The USPS has chain of ownership all the way to the IRS.Besides, the likelihood of an IRS check *arriving at an apartment complex box on the very day it is broken into is rather like being struck with lightning.

Thanks, its pretty easy to arrive at a breakeven on any given term / rate structure vs the existing 30 year fixed, 3.25%, with 23 years left on the note.   

In my experience, some of the most complicated issues can arrive during the due diligence period and while you are in escrow.

I had just arrived at Langley AFB, VA in January of 2014.