The juice often is not worth the squeeze.

I even got on my belly and slid around the house smelling every baseboard, wall, door, inside cabinets, but I can't find where it's coming from.Yesterday morning we read the following news article: https://www.codyenterprise.com...This guy had 35 cats next door and the odor is wafting into our property!

For me its real estate if: 1) Invest by location - areas with limited supply of housing, growing population, growing jobs, like Texas, 2) Invest 80% of capital in cash flowing assets - When you cash flow, you can just hold through the rising interest rates, and benefit from principle pay down, equity growth, tax benefits. 3) STR - great way to start off and juice cashflow  4) Invest with large CRE projects in solid locations - Let the pros deal with the interest rates and project hassles. 

You can only squeeze so much juice out of an orange before there's nothing left.

A typical HELOC costs $500 so there is no juice in the squeeze of giving you a free increase.

That said, I used to run my 24 unit HOA, the juice is worth the squeeze if you want to own more units in HOA communities.Is there an HOA management firm?

., but those are all problems you can solve, you just have to learn if the juice is worth the squeeze.

Even if they appreciate 5% which would be great for these low-cost areas, 5% of $100K is a lot less than 5% of $500K in more desirable markets.With that said, there are investors/owners in every city in every state who are probably making money on these properties, so I think it ultimately comes down to what type of asset you want to own and if the juice will be worth the squeeze. 

Hey @Skip Bell, I use HNG CPAs, they have been helping with my real estate taxes for years.

Neither my partner nor myself has the juice for bank financing but we have some backing to start.