Because significantly less than 100% of your investment actually goes into purchasing or improving the property, and the property is purchased at retail value (or worse), your returns will badly lag any benchmark of direct property investment.  2.

While I am extra nervous I am trying to make this an investing opportunity and decided to house hack or buy a place to rehab which I can later rent - let’s see how the DC market treats me.Suerte a todos y un placer ! 

I had a pretty successful career doing that and made good money but, it was not my passion, I love real estate and everything about it the good and the bad.

I didn't think it is necessarily a bad thing, just is more of a sales strategy than anything else.why do you think that the concept of investing in real estate with 0 money is an "idea" instead of a real thing. 

Although we do have deals on the lending side that dont work but we are not forced into a position to take big loss's like we were when the banks were calling our loans.. this will happen in the DSCR world as all these folks are using same type of debt IE debt that can be called based on the terms of the debt or like you have seen with the syndicators that are talked about on BP max leverage bad debt things dont go right And you have cap calls or projects totally lost. 

You should see some of the houses I've rehabbed or walked. ya thats maybe a 5 on a scale of 6.. the really bad ones you need a resperator to go into them.. and people worry about a little dab of mold these folks live in a petri dish.

If a single partner pays the mortgage personally, the payment must be treated as a contribution to the partnership, as specified in the partnership agreement.

Even open houses on occupied rentals are a bad idea.If you want the highest sales price possible, you will have to list it on the MLS. 

GPS isn't always 100% accurate and trying to open the door of the wrong house can have seriously bad consequences.

This is bad from an inflation standpoint.