its funny how this changes with time and the market on BP  if you asked this question 5 to 7 years ago you get drowned out with the cash flow is the ONLY thing and appreciation is for gamblers my self I have always been about making appreciation games in RE.. by either value add building a new product or buying foreclosure and flipping or lending money and getting instant 12% plus returns . 

In addition to that, though, there's several other LTR markets that offer pretty decent returns (6-8% ROI with $250+ cash flow per door is possible) for what you typically see in Florida, without accounting for appreciation

Overbuilding certain features can lead to diminishing returns, especially if they don’t resonate with local buyers.

In return he will place the down payment, closing costs and IO payments during the HML.If the property is initially purchased by one LLC (Ours) and there is an active loan on the property, is it possible to register half of the property under the name of the investor's LLC as part of our model?

If there is an opportunity out there that you believe will provide you with better returns than what the stock market then yes buy real estate.

So I offered to pay for the flight, if they returned a clean and empty house.

Complexity of return (many things such as # of states, # of properties, 1031 exchanges, etc)2.

If we do a Self Storage development we expect a 400% COC return.  

I built this budget template based on my research but am only seeing bad investment returns / don't really know what I'm doing and would appreciate any feedback you all have to offer.

.- Plan: postcard-size tax returns.