My only thought is if you could do 0 down on your first purchase, it would keep you more liquid for if you found a deal down here and weren't ready to move yet.

One of my least favorite municipalities in the greater Cleveland area.2. 

I was in land and Timber in ORegon all through the 90s one of my favorite business's just got back from Target practicing up in the Tillamook forest today :)  Timber though is HIGHLY regional..

We're closing on our Tx house this week and then decided on a midterm rental in Columbus as it seems its the obvious crowd favorite!

For example if someone has a heloc from 5 years ago at 3% and figure to use that vs. there cash which is liquid and earning them 6% that is ok, but if you are tapping it out at 6% for another property then you are over leveraged and that can get scary.Banks know the above which is why they have for the most part shutoff lines of credits on investment properties.

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While you may be at b/e for cash flow, at the end of 5 years you have 40% equity in the property if 0 appreciation.  

They decided to liquidate all their assets.

Originally posted by @Lynnette E.

(b) these persons that would have been non-productive are now productive (c) people are getting trained and learning employable skills (d) companies are highly incentivized for GROWTH (e) you've effected stimulus in net housing production but with NO added tax revenue draws because it's via an offsetting factor AND arguably a potential net GAIN via expansion of industry leading to mor employment and more income tax revenues.