Home prices took their legendary spike in 2005 and have dropped since.I conclude from this graph that there doesn’t appear to be any reliable correlation between interest rates and home prices.

After many discussions with underwriters, it was concluded that self employed borrowers should be able to state their gross income before write offs.

This concludes my rant.

I recently looked into rental yields in all Eastern US for myself and concluded some of the higher crime cities were the most attractive in my opinion.

But in order to appease you, an update is below:I took the time to read back through some of these posts and will continue to do so when this reply is concluded.

As I have thought about it today during this thread I have concluded that until we can achieve $120k annually in passive investment cash flow, our goals will be to maximize near term results. 

A retail flip, not very likely.I concluded that even if the inside is terrible, this property could likely still fetch $25K in a quick sale to another investor.

The court declined to dismiss the claims, concluding that the allegations that Think Finance was the de facto lender and did not qualify as a “foreign financial institution” under Pennsylvania law were sufficient to suggest that the loans may not be authorized by law.Although the Think Finance case is in its early stages, the decision on the motion to dismiss requires participants in the marketplace lending space to consider the case’s potential future effect on loans with borrowers in Pennsylvania.

Hello everyone, I wanted to let you all know how things concluded.  

That topic gets beat to death every day here on the forums, and I've concluded that sole prop + insurance is the right structure for my situation.For self management, I'm thinking of just starting a simple sole proprietor DBA bank account, i.e.