Your condo equity could purchase 4-5 of those duplex rentals and still have cash left over for renovations or other!

We have enough capital now to purchase a property and and we are blessed to have capital left over every month as well, which we typically invest in CDs.Here are our current options: 1-Buy a turnkey place that has nothing to do with mom for cash flow of $200-300/month plus potential appreciation, overall ROI of 15-20% 2- Ask mom if she would move closer to us in San Diego, buy a small place here, have zero cashflow but at least we have another property in a great appreciating market and are no longer spending the $800 on her rent3- Buy a place for her in Orlando, same scenario as above but obviously a lesser mortgage since its FL and not CAWe found a great turnkey company we liked so if we do option one I think we will use them, but it just feels like if we do that we will still be tossing away what we currently pay on her rent. 

.$2M in, at this future time, lightly levered RE.Supposing this is close to what you’d love, one could spit out a financial plan that looked something like the following:- Max HSA- Max 401(k)Use leftovers to go on a shopping spree buying RE at relatively low leverage, potentially on 15 year mortgages, in local LCOL area (which probably also means a relatively reasonable cash flow market)Obviously I’m making a ton of assumptions here and will be wrong in ten places.

Great advice @William Simpson @Jake Baker The roof will definitely be repaired in the near future, I just wanted to ensure I allocated the left over contingency funds in the best way possible.

I think there is a few dollars left over depending on a few variables

I am aware that if the property gets sold at higher amount than the upset price, the surplus amount is used to pay off any junior liens and the left over goes to the owner.Will the surplus amount be used to pay off property tax liens and HOA liens? 

I try to buy properties that cover the PITI and have enough left over to cover vacancies, maintenance, etc.

Just keep in mind if you have a current VA loan it does take away from your Max loan amount based on the entitlement you have left over from the first.

There are so many hidden and fully disclosed fees by the insurance companies that it is impossible to beat the following strategy that I ended up doing and will share with you below: 1) I put a single tenant commercial property under contract with a 45 day due diligence (to inspect the property with no obligation to purchase it) 2) I contacted national tenants (I follow a very specific system) and got one committed to lease the space for 10 years with a NNN lease (NNN means: Tenant pays the lease plus taxes, insurance and maintenance) and a corporate guarantee (lease is guaranteed for the duration and backed by their financing bank like Wells Fargo) and they asked me to spend some money to offset some of their TI (Tenant Improvement for the location) 3) I took the cash I was going to put in to buy in full a WL insurance and instead I just put it as a downpayment for a 20 year commercial loan at very low interest rate and I used some of the money left over to pay for the TI/rehab cost to improve the single tenant retail property as agreed with the national tenant. 4) After we signed the lease the property went up in value from $850k (when it was vacant under contract) to $1.5Mil (with the national tenant in it with the NNN 10 year lease with the corporate guarantee and escalations) 5) My cash on cash was very high and helped me afford double the life insurance coverage for a lower premium because I got instead a level term life insurance with guaranteed sane premium for 20 years) 6) Once the 20 years are over, the loan would be paid off, I would still have the building at even higher value and the rent would easily be at least double what it was when I started 7) I did this approximately 4 years ago and a few weeks ago I refinanced the property and cashed out all the money I had put in, plus some, and I compared my strategy to those whom I know that went for the WL insurance coverage and the financial difference is huge due to the insurance fees, the limitations on what can be borrowed and limitations on income etc etc You can do the same with other type of properties of course.

I had a little over $2k left over. been saving it & stacking on top of it from my job(s).