I’m curious—how are you all navigating the current lending environment for your real estate deals?

Hi Guys hope your having a wonderful day im looking to Work for someone willing to teach i know alot already but You tube dont mean Squat i need hands on Experience with someone with Wisdom in this industry that can help me get my feet wet in a controlled environment and i think working for people that are already doing big things in real estate will help more than just going on your own Iron sharpens iron.

Keeping investor money safe in this environment requires extreme amounts of investigation. 

In todays environment of back to historically normal interest rates and higher home values - now really is not a great time to buy.

i agree with you on the tough environment there for purchasing / house hacking but I wouldn't give up on that regardless of what else you look into. house hacking = owning real estatewildly successful arbitrage = not owning any real estatecan you look in Frederick MD or Fredericksburg or Ashburn or an exurb? 

WikipediaPro-business environment: Companies are reluctant to set up operations in cities with burdensome regulations that hinder profitable operations.

You pay off the 135k loan and take back your 14k plus closing and holding costs - 20k and you are left with about 6k that is cash in your pocket.So now you are +6k, and you have a renter in there paying your mortgage and putting a couple hundred per month in your pocket and you used 0 of the 150k to do it, or I should say you left 0 in the project.You wanna create a funnel, an environment where you can get 3x - 5x of these done every year, and if you holding look for the 2 - 4s buildings. 

New to this local market, I wonder whether buy and hold is a good strategies for this market (balanced between cash flow and appreciation for class A or B, I know cash flow is difficulty in general given today's real estate environment )?

After the banking failures early last year and the current razor's edge of the banking environment, you had better believe that regulators and banks are hyper sensitive to any potentially bad assets.

The environment problems seem to be much worse in Tulum.