You don't need to make all your money on your first deal, but if you crash and burn on the first there will be no second deal!

When the World Trade Center was crashed into, the owner collected double on the insurance policy but then had to give half of it back.  

But lots of people are just looking for a place to crash and don't care about that, at least until they get there and find out the place is a dump. 

Should I take out equity in the home towards a crash pad and/or doing some minor upgrades on the home OR should I save up to get into air BNB arbitrage to increase my money flow and put that towards fixing the home and eventually obtaining a crash pad.

Started buying right after the crash when the numbers just seemed too silly not to buy and then stopped buying and started selling right when covid hit.A few years before covid i was doing land flipping on a national basis and that was doing ok too.

While property values crashed I was raising rents right through it.

we already have manpower issues at these numbers.I suspect it won't do much more than crowd out private investment given private developers are already building houses at almost the highest rate since the 2008 crash. 

Got rehab pics and started getting rent for a few months then it all came to a crash.  

I remember me saying on here somewhere in a post many years ago that cycles can be a game of musical chairs when no more spots the investors crash.

I worry the tenant I'm asking to vacate will be unpleasant.