The low down payment house hack is the way to go.

If it checks the boxes I move to more detailed underwriting.

Going to try out PayRange, the Shine Pay is slightly more expensive and the one quote about the 20 units appears to be from shinepay as it is the only qoute they ever made... not sure which is better but both look like good options

Hey guys, my family has done a couple rentals in the Birmingham area and want to know what are the good areas that have worked for yall! 

Introducing myself here; I am a former biotech scientist turned to real estate professional.

It's going to be location specific.

Key is to not grow to fast and have $ set aside as it's never as fast or profitable as you think when getting started where in Texas are you looking to be a GC?

Best of luck—2025 is going to be your year!

We built a single family home version of a 2 bed 1 bath with surface parking at cost with no profit all in with land for 175k in newark ohio, a suburb of columbus ohio. when we push that to 3 units and closer to the city for our build to rent model the numbers go way better. a 30k slab for a single family home is 30k, a 30k slab for a triplex is 10k a door. we designed a 2 bed 1 bath design at 668 sq ft and it's very good layout even I would live there, but I would never build anything that small again. there's no economies of scale. you need density and shared lines, resources, shared roof shared slab, shared windows, etc the cost goes way down.

If you ever want to get into a tenant nightmare of costly potential litigation become a landlord, have the ac go out in Phoenix in July, and inform the tenant that you just don’t have the funds to replace it!.