Do your due diligence and then trust your numbers and pull the trigger.Get out of education mode and get into investment mode as soon as you can.

Megan McGinty For what it’s worth, I’ve never met a property manager that didn’t have at least a couple of owners that were in “perpetual acquisition” mode.

The hard money/private lender will want to see that your buying the property at a discount to ensure safety on his end and the less the discount the more money he will want you to put down.

That said, safety of your tenants should be of your utmost concern.

It seems as though you have developed a great strategy of handling these types of tenants, but with this being our first rental property (and me being a 5'1 female against these two), there's no way I could chance my safety. 

I don't know how scalable our model is for you, but we plan to continue this approach. 

Hello All (Experienced Multifamily investors in particular) I am a buy and hold single family investor (so far) on a scale up mode, I am close to buying small multifamily in Chicago suburbs, I have a couple of deals under consideration. 

Right now if your flipping model is humming long, generating 30% returns for investors, you have happy and plentiful investors, odds are you have a system if you’re selling a home every two weeks.

The vehicle is my primary mobility device and contributes directly to wealth building and the safety of my family, in all other ways it’s a liability I have a semi functioning truck and some real estate tied up in my late fathers estate with with about 25k in back taxes plus lawyers fees.

The vehicle is my primary mobility device and contributes directly to wealth building and the safety of my family, in all other ways it’s a liability Liabilities all my “poor guy stuff”I have a semi functioning truck and some real estate tied up in my late fathers estate with with about 25k in back taxes plus lawyers fees.