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Would it be better to stay in San Antonio and network with people in San Antonio?

You’ll notice the people who do this started threats that “go viral”.  

In most cases you're only required to have 3-5% for a primary residence, I would say that's one of the most common ways people get started in REI. 

Curious to see what feedback people who have used them have though. 

This is the same sort of criteria a lender uses to qualify people for mortgages.

You can't actually pay it off directly because they've been securitized, and the people who invested in those securities did so because of the specific certainty of the payment schedule.What you do in a defeasance is use the proceeds of the sale or the funds from your new lender to purchase treasury bonds that are packaged to make the exact payment amounts and timings on the remaining term of the loan, and then assign those bonds to your old lender.

Generally larger commercial properties and shopping centers are easier to classify with hard and fast rules, but to the points above the residential areas really move very quickly and have way more nuance than most people care to admit.zip codes are generally way too large for my liking at least in my market to provide any kind of insights other than macro level economics but even then highways or rivers that cut through a zip code can end up with totally different trade areas.we can get pretty granular with cellphone data and with grocery center data to understand the trade areas and their true boundaries, but that kind of data pull is generally only cost effective for investors doing larger scale projects or developments, and honestly we still just end up getting on the ground and feeling it out, so I generally tell people that the money is better spent on a plane ticket and weekend trip in the area you are looking rather than any kind of "trade area" level data studies.and generally B class in 1 area means something different than another. 

"I know far too many people who regret selling real estate looking back 20 years, but I've yet to come across one who regrets keeping it."