Recent sale of the assessed property is de facto value.Expert is needed for anything else.They can raise the value if you appeal.Comparable sales only count if they were closed before the lien date which is one year prior to the tax bill date.

The tariffs are another thing that's gonna significantly raise material prices.

If you do the math, since your borrower is paying interest on interest, it raises your effective interest rate by about a point.

Expect to spend another ~$8K for that.If you are planning to close all-cash and bring enough cash with you for operating expenses and rehab, you are looking at a minimum capital raise of about $3M and that is for a cheap 32 unit.

Born and raised Houstonian here!

For example, I hate to sell anything, but I am selling two properties to raise funds for a new primary that meets my goals.Study the market and really lock in what it will rent for.

For many, it allows people to test the waters to see if they enjoy being a landlord. 

And more than 600,000 residents are projected to move to the county in the next 25 years — raising the total to 1.7 million by 2050.Along with Mecklenburg, approximately 79% of the growth in the Charlotte region is expected to occur in the counties of York, S.C., (312,810 to 481,714 people), Union (269,572 to 481,612), and Iredell (212,583 to 335,056 ).A historic jumpIn the last 25 years, more than 962,000 people moved to the Charlotte region.

Certainly nothing ground-breaking in terms of ideas here, however I'll be very hands on (and on site) during the process to make sure that every step of the way is executed to a high standard and very carefully.Once I've hopefully developed a successful track record and gained experience, my next goal would be to move on to commercial assets (think multi-family, industrial etc) so that I can leverage my existing investor network and real estate knowledge to raise 3rd party equity and take on bigger projects.

I am most weary of passive investments that are not underlying real estate performance based and/or are promising fixed returns unless there is a significant track record of raising funds.