Time is the most important ingredient in Real estate investing. 

The process of mixing these ingredients together forms a slurry that you can pour into molds.

House Hacking is the best and simplest way to get started on your investment journey.

Before you can be creative in financing you must first know conventional financing, there are rules and laws, you can't just dump out a box of ideas or agreements and expect something to work, you build the financing transactions just like you prepare a meal, one ingredient at a time ensuring each is added at the right time, just enough to provide the intended results while keeping within a legal and ethical framework.You're never going to paint a master piece with a paint by numbers set. :)   

For me I like to find the simplest common denominator, and then translate what that means.

There are benefits to each type of product but rules of thumb are that if you have blemished credit then FHA is usually the simplest route to qualify.

The simplest way to value a facility like this is to take the existing and pro forma net operating income and overlay that with the market cap rate.

Even the simplest understanding of economics makes it clear that there is an opportunity cost when you take your CASH RESERVES out of the stock market (10%), a money market (5%) or wherever you're stashing them.Look at it this way, if you put $50K down on a $150K house to make it "cash flow", you may be able to brag at your monthly REI meetings about your cash flow, but you're giving up $5K-$6K/year in income.

The simplest way to look at this is:1.

My point was that, having all day to work in the house they could prepare food from very basic ingredients and so save the cost and poor nutrition of processed foods.