I've barely scratched the surface of all the information provided here and I'm so excited to jump in and learn.....and hopefully be a resource to others here.

Others aren't so forthcoming and barely want to answer questions about the property at all.

No Contingencies should put you ahead of a barely higher offer.

It's interesting to see that while NYC's 8,800 new units will be 3.7% of the 238k of the apartments in that market but Houston's 10,900 will barely move the needle, 1.8% of the 605k units in that market.

It barely takes effort to add your name and email address to their list when they send out available properties.I assume you have decided on a particular niche for your investments - either by price, zip code, neighborhood, school district, etc.

There are plenty of basement windows that are barely big enough for a cat to get out of.

Competition drives prices down to levels where businesses barely profit.

My dilemma is making the house that bares the HELOC ( needs some work) more marketable buy investing more money to attract a buyer/tenant and still having left over funds to put towards additional property.

Okay, so bare with me here.

@Christopher Schmidt, your scenario and mine are identical; whereas A and B are parents and obviously I am the C in this equation.