I was recently listening to the Old Dawgs podcast (End of Dec 2019) about an IT engineer like myself that took $50k in home equity and the husband/wife team turned it into $54M worth of rental properties in Texas after 4 years (I know this rare, but illustrates the art of the possible).

To illustrate this, I’ll use my own: 3BR, STR.

And it turns out that this is a great opportunity to illustrate something interesting about DIY.

"anti-abuse rule" and illustrated it with this example (link to the Regs below):...Example 11.

I think the lack of replies so far illustrates that few investors are involved in new construction in Baltimore.

Except that most people won't spend that hour they paid for whatever finding deals, they will spend it watching Dancing with the Stars as @Brandon Turnerlikes to illustrate.

Most of the information I've found from different sources doesn't clearly illustrate how to take a refinanced mortgage to pay a private lenders. 

At 4.5%, the 30 year payment is $506.69At 4.5%, the 15 year payment is $764.99 (the 15 year interest rate and payment should be lower in reality, but I'm keeping it the same for illustration).

JV deals do have their place, but this example illustrates better leverage and profit with a HML.

To illustrate this point, here are two scenarios:Scenario A: Hi family member, I'm thinking of investing in real estate.