@Brandon Sisco - get the seller to carry a 10% 2nd, and we can do the 80% 1st position.

We don’t require but advise tenants to carry renters insurance which they usually don’t carry.

(7%*(1-.3)You're being mislead by your model IRRs unless you also incorporate the HYSA balance you'll need to carry to keep the deal leveraged.You're also being mislead by the points you originally paid.

This is early in the game but the typical tenant turnover you have carrying costs.

Gold?? 

. - Creative and local financing : As a licensed and active Real Estate Broker in Oregon and California I can tell you there is a comparitively abnormal amount of seller carry or owner financing available on properties for sale and prospective 1031X prospects in Oregon.

As a local, you could just keep our sleepy gold mine off the front page that would be great haha.

Like I said contractors carry insurance that covers this type of issue that's what its there for.

Hi Carrie Whisel. 

.) - the two obvious metrics are total portfolio value and annual ROI.I have been investing in Milwaukee for 15 years now, a market known for cheap cash flow properties (and yes, they are fool's gold) and I basically buy the highest property quality that I can get to at least break even in year one.