One Duplex has both sides rented with about $120k in equity from mostly appreciationWe are house hacking the other duplexed financed with FHA loan (deadbeat tenants removed from side B and rehab under way).

Thank you, that’s good advice to aim for B and C properties.

Right now I have been using a helpful site: areavibes.com to narrow down my search a bit and my criteria has been this..Cheap (about 60k PP looking at my capital for a down payment & rehab)Good employment scoreGood housing scoreLow crime rateThis has helped me find a few cities to research but I am still unsure of which one is a good choice.

There would be a $800 permit fee and they would raise the property tax 2.5 times for B&B and raise the tax 4 times for stand alone units. 

I had a very narrow area since I needed to stay in the school district due to having my kids every other week. 

We are now past the Two month point so feeling it was overpriced In my opinion and wanting to narrow down the issue, I had an appraisal done and sure enough, the appraisal came back $30k below list price, I said lets list it really close “$5k” to the appraised value, my agent says no one wants to pay list in the DC market now that it is softening and becoming a buyers market, so I will end up selling it below current appraised value if I did that, especially if the buyer ask for concessions which will happen and be expected on a property over 60 days on the MLS.Anyone ever market a property close to or at the appraised value and disclose the appraised number so they don’t get lowball offers?

I recently called 6 different banks about HELOC options in San Diego, and narrowed it down to Suntrust and US Bank because both of them will offer a higher CLTV and offer fixed rate options as well as variable rate for the line of credit.

I am narrowing down the field of neighborhoods of interest based upon what I have seen people smarter than me doing, but still very open-minded on location.

We want to at least narrow down the states during the next few months.Thank you for your input!

I also have the submarket narrowed down.