When the market flips, we could consider selling, or continue to hold while annually increasing rents.

Quote from @Jokari Trueheart: HI, almost 11 months ago I purchased 3 duplexes and I borrowed the funds from my personal residence which I took out a equity agreement for the down payment on the investment property, great idea at the time because I have 10 years to pay it off and theres no payment requirement, but , I learned more about the consequence that it takes a large chunk of my equity the longer I take to pay it back, so my goal was to refi cash out the investment property to pay it back but I don't think theres enough equity yet to pull the full $106k needed, I only borrowed $88k but with the equity percentage for one year i'm paying about $18k in equity on top of the amount I borrowed if I pay it off in year one, so I need this paid off ASAP before it increases more.

Cincinnati and Birmingham tied for second place with a decline of 0.2%.The decline bucked a national trend where rents increased in 47 of the 50 largest metro areas in January compared to the same month last year, according to Zillow.The typical January rent in the Denver region was $1,918, a 0.8% decrease from January 2024.Multifamily rents experienced a larger decline than single-family rental properties, with Denver once again recording the largest drop in the nation at 0.5% in January, tying with Cincinnati.Read the rest of this story at the Denver Business Journal.

My goal is within 5-10 years to be making a monthly profit that matches our household income (currently 6.5k USD monthly but will likely increase overtime).

It does beat the expected inflation rate of 2% set by the Fed.Rents will remain about the sameWhat’s interesting is they also expect:A 11.7% increase in existing home inventory followed by Single-family new home starts growing at an impressive 13.8%. 

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I am a Mortgage Broker that is looking to increase our STR DSCR business.

Ideally, you'd want to have signed leases from each tenant, but the strategy part of it is that you also wanna make sure that you don't run people away while you are either increasing rent or preparing any units that are currently vacant.I would probably take a step-by-step approach.

This year the 8.6% maximum allowed increase is higher than the market rate increase.  

You know this and the reason I am saying that I am considering in getting a real state license is the connections, the access to listing off market and possibility of earning commission that I can use to increase my portfolio.I think that being an investor agent will help me build a reputation and that can be good or bad.