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Hi @Quortney Williams, I came across your post from a few years ago.

I expect you'll get great feedback on this post. i'll address one metric that we use to use but we have thrown it out. 

Also, you are not buying at a premium and can allow the property to appreciate if that said area is historically improving. 

The most recent job fair featured over 20,000 open positions.In ConclusionWhile nothing is guaranteed, the combination of population growth and limited land for expansion virtually assures that prices and rents will continue to increase.Thanks for reading my post.

We are on pace this year to save a little over $110K post tax money. 

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Your post is rather difficult for me to understand.

If you buy it too low, in some jurisdictions they will call it "equity skimming" which is illegal.It can be very profitable, I've done many, but you really need to know what you are doing. on pre foreclosures on the West coast if you happen to do them legally .. the old owner is due 80% of the profit if you sell within 36 months.. so there is that.. but if your buying pre foreclosure for long term hold and wait out the 36 months then your fine. the reality these days is post GFC lenders/ banks/ servicers have realize that working with the buyer to reinstate recast redo the loans is far better than taking it all the way to foreclosure so your correct its usually the worse houses that make it all the way to the end and go to sale.thats why if you follow NODs  Notice of defaults or whatever they are call in your state. you see so many postponements and or removed or paid off etc.. so you hone in on one property do all this work only to have it not go  to sale  rarely are you going to buy a home that you really want LOL

Eventually I realize that when I think about living on post-expense rental income, I’m treating the income as the “withdrawal rate”, in Boglehead parlance.