Or are investors settling for a "nicer" location with decent rents and quality tenants rather than a purely cash-flow vantage point.Even if the Holyoke market is seeing rents in the $1200-1300/month range; is this a worthwhile justification to paying a premium on these smaller multi-families?

I have sold warranties at appliance stores and I can assure you warranties are pure profit.

the 3100 a month is that split.do you take a management fee for doing all of this for the truly passive money investors.I cashed them out with the cashout refinance. so basically everything in the deal now is purely mine.

It's a pure arbitrage play.

You could always house-hack for a year and then turn it into a pure investment property.Otherwise, expect to put down 20-25%.

How am I going to find them that deal.To me real estate is pure math and numbers.

Pure speculation.

Especially, if the numbers work as a pure investment property once you move/get transferred.I don't know anything about that market, but a property like this looks pretty darn good at first blush.

That's not my style both because I don't want to be a slum lord and because I'm not investing in Detroit purely for cash flow.Yes, I know Ashley bought dumps in that price range and fixed them up and now they're worth more.

No one can be a purely passive investor in the deal as that gets into syndication territory.