starting with a flip" is really tough because flipping takes capital. 

The seller becomes the bank and pays capital gains one time on the downpayment (which keeps it low to make sense for them) and then also monthly on the payments (also incentivized to just match how much he wants a month).

Does anyone have any contacts to their acquisitions team and or their current buy boxes Companies below Cerberus Capital Management, L.PAngelo Gordon & Co.GoldenTree Asset ManagementFarallon Capital ManagementOaktree Capital ManagementI own one of the largest wholesale real estate company in Florida and we are newly into Texas for single family homes.

.$8,981 mortgage at 7%$2,918 expenses monthly 33.38% of Gross rental income (Prop mgt, maintenance reserve, utilities, Prop Taxes, Insurance, other)$6,852 NOI/monthly ($2,129) negative monthly cash flow..Same scenario with 50% down, $864 positive monthly cash flowNot saying it's the best use of capital or the only way to do it, instead providing an example using an available market opportunity to share what the numbers look like. 

We lived in the property for 2 years and rented for 2 years to tenants, so by selling now, we ensured that we could avoid capital gains taxes.

At the numbers you are talking about and where the market is heading you could pick up some very high quality NNN national credit tenant properties as commercial continues to recover. 

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If you have lived in it for 2 yrs I would suggest renting it for 2 - 3 years and then selling it to avoid capital gains taxes. 

The only thing that might give me pause would be if I did not have sufficient capital on a building that was older but had appeared to have significant maintenance issues when I was looking at it to buy.

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