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18 January 2025 | 10 replies
@Kareem Hammad With that amount of a down payment, I'd concur with @Julia Lyrberg suggestion about house hacking and expand from there.
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22 January 2025 | 3 replies
It's a more affordable market and lower property taxes, so you may actually have a chance to cash flow.
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21 January 2025 | 5 replies
I do have monthly mortgages to be paid and not having rental income to offset my negative cash flow has been a learning experience and really trying to think of what options I have to have better success at this.
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28 January 2025 | 6 replies
I ran some of your numbers, assumed rent of $1,290/unit and that you pay cash for the rehab costs.
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23 January 2025 | 3 replies
They require all cash to buy so the people there have money.
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5 February 2025 | 16 replies
It’s also worth considering a multi-family property for your first deal since it can help with cash flow.
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5 February 2025 | 1 reply
Any positive cash flow should go towards paying off debt.
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29 January 2025 | 18 replies
And not knowing their numbers also makes it next to impossible to know if you have a bad PM that's eating into your cash flow as well (Like Vacasa charging $800-1000 a month for elecrtic on a 4/3, 2000sqft house with a pool).
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15 January 2025 | 5 replies
But if you have to jump through hoops or spend a significant amount of money to put it in might not be worth it.
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20 January 2025 | 4 replies
That said, even with conservative rental income estimates, my living expenses would eventually drop to several hundred dollars less than what I’m currently paying in rent once the house hack starts generating income.I do have cash reserves to weather some rough patches, but the idea of pushing my budget this hard makes me uneasy.