Outside of real estate, I’m into mountain biking, water sports, and music, basically anything that keeps life fun and active.

I’m not sure what a basic contract is, @Steve Balinski.

If I put in in the rent less cash flow for me but the rental basically taking care of itself. 

Excellent, well-written post @Will Gaston Not sure if/when there will be an oversupply of the student apt complexes but I'd def agree that there will always be a strong market for SFH or basically any non-apartment style housing right around USC. 

Basically a 25% "down payment". 

Basically saying that we want to stick with our current offer, but we will go up $1000 to beat the next best offer up to X amount.

I talk to ChatGPT all the time, usually when I drive.Who you are is basically defined by what you think and what you do.

Basically, bring solutions for them, versus just money.We just, did 3 offer variations on a piece of land, all rejected. 

I wrote an article on it a while back you might find helpful: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2015-05-25-5-dominate-pro...I would also recommend reading Brandon Turner's The Book on Managing Rental Properties for the basics: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990711757 and Jeffrey Taylor's The Landlord's Survival Guide for the advanced stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Landlords-Survival-Guide-Succesfully-...

The answers were basically split in half whether an investment property would negatively affect my DTI, and the confusing part was that both sides were very certain of themselves.