@Paul Azad weather the juice is worth the squeeze depends on the specific deal and details.

Here's a fundamental explanation to get your juices flowing:Assume a house costs $200,000 and rents for $1,500.

My “low hanging fruit” strategy is to buy a new owner occupied every year while keeping the RV to travel in parts of the year. 

Once you pick one give it a serious dedicated effort, but if it's producing no fruit after several months you can always pivot and shift. 

I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze for investors that handle a few sales a year.Think about it.

I get the comparison but they are both "Fruit" and another words the FED cut still with likely influence Yields.

You can compete with them by offering to buy and front cash as opposed to lend to the estate.Like I said, not for someone looking for low hanging fruit or for someone without a legal team, but there are some fabulous deals working with estates.

It happens, you don't hear about it because escalation of it does not let the plaintiff find much juice in the squeeze cause there's proper protection in place.

Since you owner-occupied it, doing 5% down on your conventional would've both lowered your cost of entry (saving cash for repairs), and juiced your CoC returns even more.

What you don't want is to be negative even if its $100 unless you have a plan where you know that the appreciation will help offset that negative rent or you know you can squeeze out more juice in the near future by adding more value to the property later.