Both deeds are held in escrow, in other words, with some neutral party with instructions to file the deeds upon evidence of certain events as may be required.

Now you're neutral if not negative?

Tough to find those that are also cash positive tho, I would think.I would be happy to find some opportunities, that after ALL expenses, are cash neutral and had some potential to appreciate.The question is, how to find the market?

The rental property LLC is tax neutral.

If I add in 8% for vacancy and 10% for property management, BOOM, I'm right at the magic 50% number that is talked about here -- and I'm telling you, this is the easiest rental property I have ever had.It sounds like you're going to be highly leveraged (you're borrowing the down payment), so your strategy is likely, "Try to keep this sucker cash-flow neutral while I pay off the loans, then enjoy the property debt-free later."

A few thigs to look into, make corp. name totally neutral as possible, then if things haven't changed, have corp obtain DBA you can put pu to 3 names on each, you can do one for buyers, sellers, or what you may want to try and what name works better, and call banks up and ask how many DBA's you can have on 1 account.

I think escrowing is a good idea.But there are still problems, since the escrow agent/title company is supposed to be the neutral party: no distribution to either side prior to the other side getting theirs.

Let's say you're cash neutral.

If I'm able to purchase a property that is cash flow neutral but has a fully assumable loan, and a full amortization schedule with no balloons, and a low down payment, I will take a look at it.

The computer model looks at it this way.Example credit card limit 1,00075% or higher use 750 dollars takes a big hit to your score.Computer figures you are using up too much.50% 500 dollars average is a neutral score33% or below 330 average or below positively affect credit.You can change things on your credit and use a "rapid rescore" to update the results faster.Inquiries are one part.Inquiries initiated by you with so many in a certain time can affect you.Inquiries that are not initiated by you do not affect the score heavily.You can:1.Pay down all card balances below 33%2.Ask for a credit limit increase to increase available credit without paying down3.Ask for an interest rate reduction on your cards to lower monthly average paymentsIf you have many credit cards keep the longest trade lines open for better scores.If you have a bunch of little credit cards that are only a few months old like Gas Card,Macy's then get rid of those as too many trade lines hurts your score.If those trade lines are all you have then keep them.You would really have to post your tri-merge credit report to analyze all facets of it for improvements.