@Will BarnardThanks for the invitation, I will be in the area and will try to stop by.

From a fellow BP addict who has attended BPA numerous times (bigger pockets anonymous) and failed to quit, congrats on reaching 500 posts.

In DC, if you can cashflow $200 per month on a property, thats pretty good in my book.The reasons that not everyone is jumping in and buying instead of renting are numerous:1.

(I know, I am going to hell).To attempt to quantify the numerous reasons why I pursue such things is beyond the desired length of this post.

I have done this numerous times with title companies but some of these real estate attorney's in Northern New Jersey don't understand creative real estate investing.

I wish I had seen you to invite you.

Blackstone has spent 4.5million buying up 25,000 houses and then renting them out via Invitation Homes ."

If you don't have the two years of tax return history yet as a landlord, then you will have to qualify for the new loan while carrying the PITI of ALL loans in the numerator of your DTI ratio.

There are a number of groups in our area, I recommend the New England REIA for a conventional REIA and invite you to attend our free Black Diamond networking group in Waltham, see url in my signature.It is harder when you don't have cash, you will find many gurus who tell you that you don't need money to get started, but regardless of what they say, at the very least it is more difficult.

Once the rental house was not rented and the family planned a week's vacation at the beach and even invited another family to join them.